Another Intel 4K + GNOME Optimization Yields 5% Faster Render Times, 10% Lower Power Use

[V1tol]

For many years, the GNOME community worked mostly on features and fancy UI and largely ignored performance.

And here goes ridiculous part. Since 2011 (fist GNOME 3 release) KDE folks managed to deprecate KDE4, rewrite DE on "new" QT5 and call it Plasma, fix it, fill with a lot of features and port most of the programs to a new frameworks version. And it works FASTER, eats LESS RAM, and has MORE FEATURES and CUSTOMIZATIONS I think I am going to die of laughter right now.

[240Hz]

And yet, you obviously haven't been able to do it.

Are you dumb or just trolling? I never said DdV is the sole contributor to gnome, but without him its performance and usability would be pre alpha stage. What are other gnome devs going besides writing garbage for others to fix?

[240Hz]

That's sarcasm for sure, but I do wonder how GNOME developers managed to make everything so slow and inefficient and why it took so long to find out. Maybe it's a good idea to browse through the shaders generated for mutter and look for more.

The majority of Gnome devs do not use Linux or the Gnome desktop enviroment. Majority of them use macbooks. They dont care since they dont need to live with the consequences of bugs in software that they dont use

[AnAccount]

Are you dumb or just trolling? I never said DdV is the sole contributor to gnome, but without him its performance and usability would be pre alpha stage. What are other gnome devs going besides writing garbage for others to fix?

So, you are not only unable to read code, you are also unable to recollect what you wrote 5 minutes ago. You wrote "Without Daniel there would be no Gnome Shell or Mutter", which in fact implies that he is the only contributor that does anything that matters.

[240Hz]

So, you are not only unable to read code, you are also unable to recollect what you wrote 5 minutes ago. You wrote "Without Daniel there would be no Gnome Shell or Mutter", which in fact implies that he is the only contributor that does anything that matters.

Correct, there would be just unusable garbage. And who are you trying to impress with your ability to "read code"? Did you learn it yesterday and want to show off?

[Volta]

The question is, what are the rest of GNOME devs doing, besides outreachy and other bullshit? Without Daniel there would be no Gnome Shell or Mutter

They're fixing their MacOS laptops.

[mir3x]

The majority of Gnome devs do not use Linux or the Gnome desktop enviroment. Majority of them use macbooks. They dont care since they dont need to live with the consequences of bugs in software that they dont use

So you want so say that most Gnome developers use proprietary software on proprietary hardware to write open source ? Sounds good.

[CochainComplex]

The majority of Gnome devs do not use Linux or the Gnome desktop enviroment. Majority of them use macbooks. They dont care since they dont need to live with the consequences of bugs in software that they dont use

wait...someone is working on an opensource project whilst beeing not user of it. im sorry, have you cought to much of tulsa rally spirit?

they might have macbooks. But you know that the intermediate linux user is able to install linux on those machines

[abott]

All these optimizations are issues that people who understand how programs run. People who have worked with asm more than 5 seconds and saw how even a few more routines in a loop bog their processors down would have kept that in mind and known not to fall in to these issues because of it. When you program willy nilly to a goal on machines with so much hardware that even your mistakes don't manifest easily, and also don't exactly understand how the code you wrote actually works on a low level leads to these situations. And as you see, there's been tons of them that piled up. Just not good coding. It's fixed now, so "no harm done" except, you know, years of it sucking for no reason except ineptitude.

[sarmad]

"...after he upgraded his display...."

Can someone give this guy another 4K monitor so he can run dual 4K monitors?