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> Windows is not considered the epitome of performant interfaces but it has no trouble rendering UI’s at 120 fps. When people go and buy a 120 fps display, they
by ben-schaaf 4y ago
> Windows is not considered the epitome of performant interfaces but it has no trouble rendering UI’s at 120 fps. When people go and buy a 120 fps display, they are wowed by the smooth scrolling in a heavy application like Google Chrome.
Windows uses GPU-based rendering in most/all of their GUI frameworks. Chrome also makes heavy use of hardware acceleration. Rendering performance isn't left to the window manager. If you're making your own GUI this is exactly the kind of stuff you need to do to make it fast.