Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 14:39 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Robin 
Atwood did opine thusly:

> On Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale wrote:
> > I just checked again, it is still working.  I'm liking that I can watch
> > a video whenever I want instead of when it decides to work.  ;-)
> 
> I also have good news to report. I upgraded to Qt 4.7.0 and my xserver is a
> reformed character! It sits and chugs away at 1.0% CPU like it used to with
> Qt/KDE 3.5. No other graphics related packages were updated at the same
> time, so it's definitely Qt which made the difference.


So I wasn't imagining things :-)

I noticed the same and it seems even a bit better with the very latest 
qt-4.7.1. Some time ago I read a blog post about KDE and plasma, where stuff 
will be rewritten for kde-4.6. I can't find it now, it might have been on 
kde.org, slashdot or even the gentoo planet but it was by that Aaron fellow. 
He also said that there were speedups possible in Qt as well. 

Seems like we are now getting some of that benefit.

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