Johannes wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:41:33PM +0000, corvid wrote:
Johannes wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:35:44PM +0000, corvid wrote:
Johannes wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:02:05PM +0000, corvid wrote:
Jeremy wrote: > There are no regressions that I can see. It feels just as fast and > somewhat less flickery. Mind you, this is a fairly fast machine, it > would be useful if someone with a more low-end box tried it out.
I wonder who you could be talking about :) I applied it, but running without double buffering is just not an option for me. Drawing is just very slow no matter what.
Is dillo-fltk useable for you with the patch, but with clear_double_buffer() as in current cvs? If not, what exactly is the problem?
Drawing a page of text takes a couple of seconds, as I've always seen with clear_double_buffer().
Well, I don't expect it to be faster with my patch, but there should be less flicker, so you should be able to start reading while the page is loading. The same effect would I expect from commenting out clear_double_buffer(). Or is the drawing itself faster if you comment out clear_double_buffer()?
With clear_double_buffer(), I hit page down on an already-loaded page. It takes four seconds to draw the screen of text (well, and then it performs a redraw for another three or four seconds).
Ouch, 4 seconds is really slow... And there should be now additional redraw in this case.
If I comment out clear_double_buffer(), it takes no perceived time.
This is interesting. I will try to reproduce this on my old laptop.
Can you please run xdpyinfo on your machine and check whether or not you have RENDER and XDBE extensions enabled in your X-server?
It shows RENDER. No XDBE, but there is DOUBLE-BUFFER, which Xorg.0.log says comes from "dbe". Is it misconfigured? I wouldn't be too surprised...
(If you think that's bad, I used a Commodore until 1993 -- if you're old enough for that to mean much to you, anyway).
Old enough - yes, but I had an Atari 800XL back then :-)
Yeah, I remembered after I sent it that the 8-bit world survived a long time in Germany, and so that was bound to sound relatively sane. And dillo in 2008 draws a certain sort of person anyway.