Intel Linux Graphics Performance Q4'08

An area where the performance had improved in the newer releases was with the transformed blit bilinear test through JXRenderMark. With the older packages the performance was nearly unusable while now with the latest packages its performance was in excess of several hundred operations per second.

The transformed texture paint performance had dropped with the newer packages.

In Render Bench, which is a long-standing X Render benchmark, the overall performance was maintained between the two package sets tested.