The X Window System, past and future
Posted Mar 29, 2003 17:36 UTC (Sat) by
ptr (guest, #5885)
In reply to:
The X Window System, past and future by iabervon
Parent article:
The X Window System, past and future
I think that slightly misses the point. The criticism of efficiency applies to the protocol which
serializes display updates into a data stream. This protocol is used no matter whether a
remote network connection or a local unix socket is used. This protocol is claimed to be
inefficient, because the supported drawing primitives are too low-level (as mentioned earlier in
this thread).
Another fundamental question is, if there are better approaches for inter process
communication than serialization which scale up better in the case that the applications run on
the same system. Of course, also security issues are of concern...
(
Log in to post comments)
