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Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak

Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak

Posted Feb 12, 2013 17:58 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak by neilbrown
Parent article: LCA: The X-men speak

As the current article says, the new thing in X rendering is better buffer management, because clients already draw everything themselves to buffers that are shared with the X server. Wayland just drops support for drawing methods that modern clients don't use any more.


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