> "bloat" despite being capable of running on a 486 The worst bloat is structural and involves network round-trips, usleep(10000) calls, etc that can't be remo

> "bloat" despite being capable of running on a 486 The worst bloat is structural and involves network round-trips, usleep(10000) calls, etc that can't be removed due to expectations that have thoroughly baked themselves into an ecosystem. No amount of Moore's law can make usleep(10000) faster. I don't know if that applies to X, but I have vivid memories of learning how to tunnel X sessions only to find that VLC was faster and more responsive while using less bandwidth on extremely simple UIs. Something in that protocol had become so shamefully suboptimal that it lost a box drawing contest to pixel pushing, and I tend to suspect there is more where that came from.