Cinnamon 1.6.* performance issues

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I'm having performance issues with cinnamon using any of nouveau or nvidia proprietary drivers. For the moment I'm trying different setting for nvidia drivers and while I've been able to get it working resolvable fine it's still far from working smoothly. Does anybody have any tips on how to get it working properly?

Regards,
Vlad.

P.S. I've tried the previous version of cinnamon a while ago and it has been working very fine on the same hardware, but the current one is a step back in terms of performance. I've seen quite a few bugs related to performance degradation between gnome 3.4 and 3.6 but there's no solutions (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1064095 as an example).