Xrender cursor performance / double buffering?

[William Cohen]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Heh.  More and more cursors are images these days, rather than two
> plane.  The question is if we hit the hardware alpha blending unit for
> cursors or not.  I'd suspect not, but profiling would provide the answer
> if you don't know instantly...
>                                 - Jim

What would be the experiment to test cursor overhead? Start up an application , 
wait for the application to warm up, start up profiling, wiggle the cursor 
around a lot, stop profiling, and then do the analysis?

Is there someway to drive the cursor around without having someone physically 
using the touchpad? In the past I asked about dogtail running on the olpc. 
However, it appears that doesn't run because the GTK accessibility code isn't 
available on olpc machine. Are there other testing frameworks that work with 
olpc gui?

-Will

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 08:47 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
>> On 17/04/07 16:25 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> XO is not using the HW cursor anyway because, as you point out, that  
>>> only supports 2 bit cursors (1 bit black/white, 1 bit alpha).
>> So I'm confused.  You know that the hardware can only do two bit cursors.
>> Yet you are ignoring that, and purposely taking a performance hit so
>> you can have a more colorful cursor.  Why?
>>
>> Jordan
>>