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Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient" (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 days ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Plus a million lines of C code with buffers that are all different sizes

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