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Wayland's speed edge over X11 does not translate to efficiency, PorteuX benchmark shows
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PorteuX's benchmark for its xfwm4-gl fork indicates Wayland is intrinsically faster than X11 but not necessarily more efficient.
For engineers choosing a display server, this suggests Wayland's performance advantage is real but does not automatically mean lower resource usage. The distinction between speed and efficiency matters for systems where power or memory are constrained. The benchmark from PorteuX provides a concrete measurement to consider.
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PorteuX forked xfwm4 into xfwm4-gl for OpenGL compositing support.
The fork includes a window manager/compositor benchmark.
The benchmark found Wayland intrinsically faster but not necessarily more efficient than X11.
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