LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 8, 2010 17:41 UTC (Mon) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)
In reply to: LPC: Life after X by marcH
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

The problem is that applications (and toolkits, antialiasing, etc) have bloated the number of round-trips required. In my (admittedly anecdotal) experience, modern applications (including a current emacs) run *way* slower over a network than similar programs did in the 1980s. Everything has been designed and optimized based on the assumption that the X server is on the same machine as the client.

LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 8, 2010 18:30 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

This is because that is always true that the client is on the same machine as the server. Within a error of about .1%.

LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 20, 2010 1:04 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Actually, in my house, that's true about 50% of the time.

Soon, probably, to be 33% of the time ... :-)

(I've got a Phenom X3 as my main machine, an Athlon 1050 .75Gb ram machine I use as an x-terminal, and an Acer Aspire One that will probably soon have Smeegol on it and get used as an x-terminal too)

Cheers,
Wol