The Cost Of Running Compiz

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 21, 2010 8:48 AM EDT
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Earlier this week we published benchmarks comparing Arch Linux and Ubuntu. There were only a few areas where the two Linux distributions actually performed differently with many of their core packages being similar, but one of the areas where the results were vastly different was with the OpenGL performance as Ubuntu uses Compiz by default (when a supported GPU driver is detected) where as Arch does not. This had surprised many within our forums so we decided to carry out a number of tests with different hardware and drivers to show off what the real performance cost is of running Compiz as a desktop compositing manager in different configurations.

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This doesn't make sense bigg 1 1,544 May 21, 2010 7:41 PM

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