sanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"www.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down13cross-posted to: linux@sh.itjust.workslinux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkWayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"www.phoronix.comsanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square2linkfedilinkcross-posted to: linux@sh.itjust.workslinux@lemmy.ml
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up19·3 months 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-up3·3 months 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