News [Phoronix] KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

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KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Faster-WL-SHM

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