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Doesn’t (or didn’t?) X11 work by serializing every drawing operation and doing IPC? That’s been used on very old machines and is very responsive.
by swiley 7y ago
Doesn’t (or didn’t?) X11 work by serializing every drawing operation and doing IPC? That’s been used on very old machines and is very responsive.
- ptx 7y agoThe MIT-SHM shared memory extension was added pretty early on. And nowadays (in GTK etc.) everything is drawn on the client side and sent over as a bitmap. The old-style serialized drawing commands model is only responsive when you have a very simple UI that doesn't do much drawing.