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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

it also matters whether the animation frames are synced to the vertical 
blanking timings. One thing you can do to make quite a few compiz 
related things smoother is to turn the mouse position polling down to 1 
(or anything less than about 15) this will mean that panning around a 
zoomed desktop is totally smooth and if you have the show mouse plugin 
the stars keep pace with the mouse and look beautiful. Apparently there 
is no performance penalty for doing this now that the compiz mainloop 
has changed a bit (I don't know the details, I just asked in the #compiz 
IRC channel what the performance impact would be). I think I submitted a 
patch suggesting a change to the default mouse polling time somewhere.

Alan.

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