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Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48
As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!
Ubuntu maker Canonical has been working on these patches going back a number of years for dynamic double/triple buffering to help with rendering on lower-end GPUs such as Intel integrated graphics and Raspberry Pi hardware. If the previous frame being rendered was running late, triple buffering can be dynamically engaged to help ensure the GPU clock speed is boosted to help in meeting on-time/better performance. With this triple buffering support, initial HDR bits, a new default font, and many other changes, GNOME 48 is shaping up to be a heck of a major release due out in mid-March.
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