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Ubuntu's Unity Decision Affects 2D Performance Too

While the Qt OpenGL back-end was faster with Unity over Unity 2D, when using the X RENDER back-end it's a completely different story. When pushing the Qt tests over the X.Org Server's RENDER extension the performance was much more favorable with Unity 2D.

The x11perf results were minimally affected by the Unity vs. Unity 2D differences.