Re: how to get rid of XFree in the longterm (just a thought)

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 02/25/04

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    Date: 24 Feb 2004 23:52:45 GMT

    Oops! Ian Bell <ian@redtommo.com> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
    > Its primary performance limiter is the creation of a GUI via the
    > x-protocol which is predicated upon the need to provide a network
    > transparent graphics system. Remove the need for network
    > transparancy and significant performance improvements for desktop
    > apps are possible. Work is already going on to do just this.

    Have you got any actual benchmarks that demonstrate that the
    communications layer _actually_ is the bottleneck?

    Or is this simply the usual nonsense about X being bloated because of
    "network support?"

    Remember: Most of us are using X via UDS, which is NOT "network
    transparent," and which eliminates usage of network stack.

    If X is slow even when using UDS, then the problem _can't_ simply be
    that of the cost of network transparency. 

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