PorteuX Benchmark: Wayland Intrinsically Faster But Not Necessarily More Efficient Than X11
Recent findings from the PorteuX Linux distribution indicate that Wayland's architectural design provides performance advantages over X11 for certain operations. As reported by Phoronix, PorteuX, known for its high-performance and modular approach, developed a specific window manager and compositor benchmark. This benchmark was created in conjunction with their fork of Xfce's xfwm4 window manager, named xfwm4-gl, which integrates OpenGL for compositing. The benchmark's results suggest that Wayland is "intrinsically faster than X11, but not necessarily more efficient," offering developers and users data on the real-world performance characteristics of the display server protocols.