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Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?Posted Jun 28, 2006 21:56 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)In reply to: Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image? by dwheeler Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)
Possibly the compression and decompression would eat a lot of CPU, and therefore power, which would be bad. I could see that being the case, especially if there's a lot of not-very-compressible pixmaps floating around.
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