I should add that the model of an application that is split across the network (e.g. Rob Pike's Sam editor) offers ways to improve that. I can't speak to the ef

I should add that the model of an application that is split across the network (e.g. Rob Pike's Sam editor) offers ways to improve that. I can't speak to the efficiency losses of locally using pipes rather than some kind of shared memory, DMA, or direct graphics access, but maybe inferno has some multimedia-oriented fixes for that, I don't remember.