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From: Egor Nogdor <denblomstertid@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:16:20 +0000
Subject: Beginner question about fbdev performance
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Hi,

Why is it that the unaccelerated framebuffer device is slower than
e.g. an accelerated X session when blitting data from main memory?
Shouldn't both cases involve simply copying data from RAM to VRAM?
What is the bottleneck in the former case?

Thanks,
Anders