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Re: Window Manager Performance...
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Thomas Chadwick <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:04:17 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Window Manager Performance...
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> I find it surprising that the additional communications overhead of running
> the window manager remotely is more than made up for by the fact that it's
> running in a "native" unix environment (vs. cygwin).
There is no additional communication overhead. You have to send the data
packets from the Xserver to the windowmanager anyway. You might notice
a lag with very slow network connections (<10MBit, maybe <64kBit), but
ethernet is fast enough to transport simple X communication.
X11 was developed when 10MBit was a high-end connection.
On the other hand, you now have parallel processing. Machine A encodes
the protocol and machine B decodes it. Its faster than machine A en- and
decodes.
bye
ago
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