Originally Posted by ChaosInc
Easy. I like cutting down my performance as much as possible right now as my vid card is slowly dying and I can't afford a new one yet. So the least amount of load on it at this point is kinda important to me.
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My point was that you
can't quantify the "performance" of "FuBar" versus "Broker" because they are not the same thing. There is no single "Broker" addon as there is one single "FuBar" addon. Not all plugins written using the FuBarPlugin API have direct equivalents written using the LibDataBroker API. The feature-sets and resource usage of the various LibDataBroker-compatible displays vary wildly. If you use a very minimal display addon with just three minimal plugins, of course that set will use fewer system resources than if you use FuBar and 72 plugins. This entire thread makes no sense. "Broker" is not any one thing you can quantify. Hell, "FuBar" isn't even really any one thing you can quantify, due to its plugin nature.
Also, addons, unless they are adding complex animated graphics to your screen, have almost no effect at all on your video card's performance. The biggest impact on your system's performance occurs in the CPU arena -- addons which do a lot of processing, such as a damage meter, a chat frame mod, or a set of raid unit frames, will have a much bigger impact than addons which do little or no processing, like an addon that reskins the loot frame or an addon that colors names on your friends list. Memory usage is only a concern when addons use too much too quickly; again, damage meters fall under this category, as they collect large amounts of data quickly. Neither FuBar nor any LibDataBroker-based display should have such a large impact on your framerate. If you're having performance issues, try disabling more performance intensive addons first, and lowering your in-game sound and video settings.
The topic of this thread still doesn't make sense, though.