I'm guessing this might be related to the fact I'm running on an Intel graphics desktop. So the buffer implementation for the EGL clients is still GBM. However the buffer implementation for the software clients is just local memory (ShmBuffer).
** Summary changed: - Software compositing of EGL clients is much slower than software clients + Software compositing of EGL clients is much slower than software compositing of software clients -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576032 Title: Software compositing of EGL clients is much slower than software compositing of software clients To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1576032/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp