Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?
Stijn Hoop
stijn at win.tue.nl
Fri Feb 3 00:01:42 PST 2006
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote:
> Garrett Cooper schrieb:
> > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there
> > should be a noticeable difference.
>
> The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile
> all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9
> took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine
> with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006).
Heh :-)
But the advantage *should* be that you don't need to recompile all of
that every major upgrade. I don't know what will become of that ideal
though, only time will tell I guess.
--Stijn
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