Quantifying X performance

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/2011 11:10 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> Ian Pilcher wrote:
>>> Does it work with the open source driver?  I'm getting this on Fedora
>>> 14:
>>
>> Most likely not:
>>
>>> GL_ARB_half_float_pixel is not supported
>>
>> You can try their older Sanctuary benchmark, too.
>
> Same result with Sanctuary.
>
> So back to the original question.  How can I quantify the (perceived)
> performance regression from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14?

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Richard