openGL in xfwm4

[Kelly Miller]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Has anyone actually done any reasonable benchmarking of opengl-based vs. 
> xrender-based compositing/rendering, and run it on a variety of cards 
> with different drivers?  I hear a lot of people throwing around "opengl 
> is faster than xrender," but I see no proof of this.  I occasionally see 
> some similar benchmarks on planet.freedesktop.org, but nothing 
> comprehensive, and nothing that tests more than a particular (usually 
> experimental) driver version on a particular card.
>   
I don't know about benchmarking, but I can tell you that on my laptop, X 
crashes and restarts in the presence of anything 3D or OpenGL related.