sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoWayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"www.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinux@lemmy.ml
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minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up19·16 days agoX11 started as 4000 GNU hacks in a trenchcoat. I’d imagine some things it does are extremely efficient but everything has to go through a Rube Goldberg machine to get to the efficient bit.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days agoPlus a million lines of C code with buffers that are all different sizes
X11 started as 4000 GNU hacks in a trenchcoat. I’d imagine some things it does are extremely efficient but everything has to go through a Rube Goldberg machine to get to the efficient bit.
Plus a million lines of C code with buffers that are all different sizes