Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?

Posted Jun 28, 2006 21:56 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #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.