E17 benchmarks

[samuel verstraete]

I agree with you Olivier... but when i disabled the the smart placement
(just in the settings manager) this made no difference at all... (well
a little bit but nothing spectacular)

gr,
Sam

On Thu,  9 Jun 2005 13:10:09 +0200 (CEST)
Olivier FOURDAN <fourdan.olivier at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> Xfwm4 computes the best suitable placement for a window before showing it. It basically means that it scans the whole screen, 8pix by 8pix computing the global overlap between every visible window at each iteration.
> 
> That benchmark shows nothing at all. If you remove the smart palcement, xfwm4 would probably be a lot faster *for that benchmark*  but would be a lot less usable IMO.
> 
> The speed of a window manager doesn't come from its ability to map windows as quickly as possible, but to respond to user (ie resize/move windows).
> 
> HTH
> Olivier.
> 
> > Message du 09/06/05 09:54
> > De : "Jasper Huijsmans" <jasper at xfce.org>
> > A : xfce4-dev at xfce.org
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> > Objet : E17 benchmarks
> > 
> > Hi Olivier,
> > 
> > Just saw some benchmarks by rasterman for E17. Xfwm4 comes out at the bottom,
> > far below metacity. That sounds wrong to me. Maybe it's useful, maybe not...
> > 
> > http://www.rasterman.com
> > 
> > 	Jasper
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