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The benefit most noticeable to me is the faster user interface.

• sprash 6y ago
  In my experince X11 is faster (as in latency) when run without any compositor.
  • silon42 6y ago
    This seems critical. Could be fixed by turning off vsync?
    • sprash 6y ago
      Not entirely. Despite the fact that no available Wayland compositor allows you to disable vsync at this point Wayland also throws away all the work done by ddx drivers on X11 implementing 2D acceleration. This allows X11 clients to de-facto render to directly to the frontbuffer when no compositor is in use. It is the lowest possible latency you can get.
      • cycloptic 6y ago
        In theory there could be a Wayland implementation that loads Xfree86 drivers, but why? Going forward, the implementations that want high performance and low latency (i.e. VR/XR interfaces) are likely going to target Vulkan, and you will likely never want to disable vsync there.
      • bitwize 6y ago
        DDX is deprecated in favor of GLAMOR for acceleration. Which roughly matches the story on Wayland: use OpenGL on the GPU for acceleration. Then again, Xorg is effectively deprecated in favor of Wayland...