New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time

Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink's start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Faster-Zink-Start-Time-Patches

[rmfx]

Curious to see a RadeonSI / Radv + Zink and NV blob GL / Nvk + Zink benchmark for mesa 24.1 now.

[RejectModernity]

Mike keeps delivering content and code, I love it.

[timofonic]

Mike for president!

Next step: Optimize Linux kernel and filesystems.

[stiiixy]

Mike for president!

Next step: Optimize Linux kernel and filesystems.

I bet when he takes a breath, think 'I'll optimise the optimisers'.

Then tackle the kernel and FS'.

[QwertyChouskie]

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You're welcome

[ehansin]

Not all heroes wear capes. I mean the guy might wear a cape sometimes, just saying.

[timofonic]

Not all heroes wear capes. I mean the guy might wear a cape sometimes, just saying.

Is Dracula a hero too?