to be fair, wayland improves upon X in many other areas other than performance and while this might be true for the machine/workloads i did not notice any slowd

to be fair, wayland improves upon X in many other areas other than performance and while this might be true for the machine/workloads i did not notice any slowdown running it in a vm (i also don't use that much ram, while an editor/ide might be hungry they only eat a few gigabytes. I rarely run things that really eat ram for lunch).