Here are some weekend follow-up tests to last month’s GNOME 3.18 On Fedora 23: X.Org vs. Wayland Performance article.
As I had a system around where I’m carrying out some Fedora 21 vs. 22 vs. 23 performance benchmarks, I decided to devote a few extra minutes to running some new stock tests comparing the default GNOME Shell 3.18 experience atop the X.Org Server to then switching to the Wayland-based Shell experience.
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