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[Mike Kaplinskiy <mike.kaplinskiy@xxxxxxxxx>]

@bouazza: we're not quite there yet. In fact, we haven't even begun
talking about catching up to windows. The main reason is that the
graphics drivers for intel are currently (relatively) unstable. If you
read the bug description, intel is doing a major rework of their linux
drivers.

In particular the two outcomes of this are two new driver components:
GEM and Gallium3D. GEM has been introduced into the release, and most of
the performance decreases from hardy were due to GEM being unstable (ie
failing on certain hardware). The next step would be to move the Mesa
Gallium3D driver into ubuntu, and i am 95% sure it's not happening until
karmic. Then we can talk about catching up to windows, since as of now
intel drivers crash on anything more than glxgears (GLSL makes them
cry).

For an example of current developments in the intel linux graphics world
- EXA support was recently removed, so we're moving closer to a single
stable intel backend driver (on UXA only). But this is not making it
into jaunty since it requires the new kernel. Bottom line - you probably
shouldn't expect "improved" (as you define it) intel performance on
jaunty without manual tweaking. Or you could just update to the karmic
alpha :).

my 2c

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MASTER: Poor graphics performance on Intel
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