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at the risk of appearing pedantic: whereas a large chunk of X11 is dedicated to draw commands (circle here, line here, pixel here): wayland doesn't have any in
by blibble 3y ago
at the risk of appearing pedantic: whereas a large chunk of X11 is dedicated to draw commands (circle here, line here, pixel here): wayland doesn't have any
instead it's all shared memory buffers
- LoganDark 3y agoX was designed to be used over a network, where sending buffers would have been very slow. Sending primitive draw commands, on the other hand, was much faster.