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Marking the the depth/stencil as discarded before swapping buffers for
the screen signals the GPU that we don't need to keep them around for
the future.
This helps performance by reducing memory bandwidth usage in some GPUs
which may optimize to not write those buffers back to memory at all
after rendering, when they would just be cleared right after that
anyway.
It is not necessary to mark buffers as discarded after swapping buffers.
This should have no effect according to the spec (since that is going to
be followed by new rendering commands which make the buffer valid again)
and removing that has shown no impact in performance tests.

Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2091>
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Mutter

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

When used as a Wayland display server, it runs on top of KMS and libinput. It implements the compositor side of the Wayland core protocol as well as various protocol extensions. It also has functionality related to running X11 applications using Xwayland.

When used on top of Xorg it acts as a X11 window manager and compositing manager.

It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.

Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.

Mutter is used by, for example, GNOME Shell, the GNOME core user interface, and by Gala, elementary OS's window manager. It can also be run standalone, using the command "mutter", but just running plain mutter is only intended for debugging purposes.

Contributing

To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.

It can be useful to look at the documentation available at the Wiki.

The API documentation is available at:

Coding style and conventions

See HACKING.md.

Git messages

Commit messages should follow the GNOME commit message guidelines. We require an URL to either an issue or a merge request in each commit. Try to always prefix commit subjects with a relevant topic, such as compositor: or clutter/actor:, and it's always better to write too much in the commit message body than too little.

Default branch

The default development branch is main. If you still have a local checkout under the old name, use:

git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main

License

Mutter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for detalis.