A Slew Of Performance Improvements To Hit Compiz

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Slew Of Performance Improvements To Hit Compiz

While publishing this morning was a large Ubuntu 13.04 OpenGL desktop performance comparison using six desktop environments and five different GPU/driver configurations, to result in 30 different data points for multiple Linux games, also announced today were forthcoming Compiz performance improvements. To land soon will be a number of performance enhancements for the Compiz compositing window manager...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI1MTM

[fritsch]

I would wait a bit for updates. Last package building went wrong and now the PPA suggest to uninstall unity :-)

[johnc]

I would wait a bit for updates. Last package building went wrong and now the PPA suggest to uninstall unity :-)

not seeing the problem there...


err i mean, o rly?

[fritsch]

https://launchpad.net/~smspillaz/+ar...z-experimental <- see on the right side.

at least for quantal and precise.

[Pawlerson]

Don't forget to benchmark with suspend compositions turned on, please.

[d2kx]

The performance with this is absolutely fantastic. All problems related to window movement: *gone*. Ubuntu 13.04 can't come soon enough.

[Vadi]

Nice. Brilliant work by nVidia and Compiz devs.

[schmidtbag]

not seeing the problem there...


err i mean, o rly?

lmao, that made my day.

anyways, nice to see today's articles were so filled with performance improvements in every direction. while i haven't used compiz in 3 or 4 years, its nice to see some improvements.

[ninez]

Well, I had to at least give the latest code a spin, and yes the performance is absolutely fantastic (!!) and i can also verify that the moving windows bug is indeed fixed. This is definitely a step in the right direction for compiz

that being said; the blank/white/black window bug for nvidia still does exist, which means that as nice as these improvements are - they don't solve one of the bugs that drove me away from using compiz, somewhat recently (after working around it for over a year!)... video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNMTbFlTj4

(in the video) I trigger the blank windows in a predictable way;

1. minimize nautilus (or any window)
2. use scale (but click on another window, not the minimized one)
3. un-minimize nautilus - then nautilus (or most any other app/window) will now appear blank :\

It's been well-over a year and a half with no solution in sight, which is why i ditched compiz. but also because of them dropping some plugins (that i was using) and lastly because of the slow moving windows, which the latest changes fix wonderfully. Maybe if they ever do manage to fix that bug i _may_ use compiz again, but until then, i would rather use a WM that doesn't do that.

good job on the performance improvements, though. Compiz feels like it is on crack now

[d2kx]

With today's updates there is some new corruption with fglrx, but on the positive side Compiz fucking flies. I have already reported bugs. Here is a video if anyone cares: http://youtu.be/sdtwCFGTLbg