#10410 NORM 10.1.3: Consider Geode driver update

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#10410: Consider Geode driver update
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           Reporter:  martin.langhoff  |       Owner:  cjb          
               Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  reopened     
           Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  10.1.3       
          Component:  x window system  |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:                   |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  design           |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:                   |   Blockedby:               
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Comment(by dsd):

 I had a look at this a couple of months ago. While I could run benchmarks
 showing improvement, I could only see tiny improvements in regular usage:

 I put 2 laptops side by side, both with a long text-only page in Browse. I
 held the down arrow key on both laptops and both reached the end at pretty
 much the same time.

 I then timed the duration of "cat bigfile" from the Terminal activity
 where bigfile was a file with lots of lines and while a more measureable
 improvement was seen, it was not really significant and this is not really
 a use case either.

 I'd vote to stick with what was shipped in 10.1.2 in order to avoid
 risking (more) regressions.

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