[SWLUG] Xgl and Official Hellos

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed Sep 20 11:05:55 2006, Andy Dixon wrote:
> On 20 Sep 2006, at 11:03, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 
>> On 19/09/06, Andy Dixon <andy at andydixon.com> wrote:
>>> Dave Cridland wrote:
>>> > But really, I can't help but think that these things are 
>>> carefully
>>> > designed for people with more cycles than sense.
>>> Its been designed for Windows. It sickens me when I think these
>>> companies either are too short-sighted, too lazy or the driver
>>> developers are just ex-Microsoft code monkeys.
>> 
>> I think you're talking about the laptop and Dave was talking about 
>> the
>> 'special' effects in Xgl.
>> 
>> 
> Oh. It had been a long day ;)
> 
> Its mainly eye candy, but does mean more stuff is handled by the 
> GPU  instead of being all done by the CPU, I think. Could be 
> wrong...

Oh, I agree that more stuff is done by the GPU. I'm just not sure 
that *less* stuff is done by the CPU, which would make it a vaguely 
sensible proposition. :-)

Dave.
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