active boot time traces, some time later..

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Wednesday 23 November 2011 21:33:58 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > given that I broke my PA installation by having the great idea of updating
> > to openSUSE 12.1 I could give meego a try again and look myself.
> > 
> > But I fear that the issue is that the Intel graphics are just not capable
> > of doing OpenGL 2 decently. There is a reason why we default to OpenGL 1
> > for Intel on the desktop... I know we have one slow code path in the
> > fragment shader which doesn't matter on decent hardware, but might matter
> > on not so good hardware. The slow code path is an if-statement in the
> > fragment shader. Yes a simple branch which is evaluated to false most of
> > the time.
> 
> removing that if it gets a *lot* better, but still slow managing input
> events with the touchscreen
ok, I'll do a small reviewrequest for that tomorrow - wanted to do it anyway 
and having the confirmation that it is useful, is quite a motivation :-)