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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 02:39:04)
Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"

The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX
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