glxgears non-benchmarkiness (was Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance)

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 05:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > > and no, glxgears is not a benchmark!
> > 
> > Indeed, glxgears really sucks as as a benchmark, Phoronix's benchmark suite
> > (as imperfect as it is) is definitely more useful.
> 
> I keep meaning to file a feature request for glxgears - remove the FPS
> display...if it's not a benchmark, let's not make it look like one.

I notice, now, that there already is one:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4704

Reported by our very own (although not at the time...) Ben Skeggs, no
less.

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