Kevin Chadwick [ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk] wrote: > > Under X, KMS performance should be faster on a lot of > > hardware. The whole point of KMS is to bring modern, better > > supported drivers to OpenBSD (and get rid of the crappy X > > security model). > > I hope that's true but I think the most important point is that it is > slower because it is so much slower. > > In other words the terminal without KMS would likely be slowing down > the operation anyway except you only noticed before when performance > really mattered and so now you are working even faster with the > arguable bonus that things may be more likely to be noticed as they fly > by to shift -> page up to. >
The vt terminal is going to be slower with the current code. It works completely differently now. The X terminal should not be.
