I just recently filed a bug about horrible performance when runnig the existing X11 pipeline using intel's forked UXA accaleration architecture. AWT applications are extremly slow, hardly useable.
> We don't intend to fix this in UXA ourselves. If you're drawing unantialiased
> text in 2009, your software fails. If you're not using Xft or cairo for text
> drawing in 2009, your software fails even harder (it would perform fine if you
> were).
So, it seems intel doesn't care they broke your software :-/
Mittwoch, 18. März 2009
Donnerstag, 5. März 2009
Shader Trapezoids
Lately I've been playing with shaders a bit, investigating the possibility of implementing XRender's more complex features (trapezoids and gradients) using shaders instead of falling back to software all the time.
I started with trapezoids because they're used a lot, and because pixman's strange implementation made me curious:
I used NVidia's Cg language because it can be compiled down to ARG_fragment_program, which is the best my i945GM can do. Performance could be better and I am limited to 0,25px subpixel precision because of the i915's 64 ALU instruction limit.
But at least from what I can tell the traps should conform to the spec for imprecise trapezoid mode (default), I'll try to feed some cairo output at it and see what will go wrong ;)
On my i945GM I get 25fps fullscreen, a RedeonHD3850 is able to do ~1000fps and is still not ALU limited :)
Hopefully some day that stuff will find its way into one of the opensource drivers, I guess on more powerful hardware like AMD's R600/700 GPU setup costs will dominate :)
I started with trapezoids because they're used a lot, and because pixman's strange implementation made me curious:
I used NVidia's Cg language because it can be compiled down to ARG_fragment_program, which is the best my i945GM can do. Performance could be better and I am limited to 0,25px subpixel precision because of the i915's 64 ALU instruction limit.
But at least from what I can tell the traps should conform to the spec for imprecise trapezoid mode (default), I'll try to feed some cairo output at it and see what will go wrong ;)
On my i945GM I get 25fps fullscreen, a RedeonHD3850 is able to do ~1000fps and is still not ALU limited :)
Hopefully some day that stuff will find its way into one of the opensource drivers, I guess on more powerful hardware like AMD's R600/700 GPU setup costs will dominate :)
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