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From: al@eos.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: fundimental X performance problems?
Keywords: X
Message-ID: <980@eos.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 18:35:30 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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From talking to people and reading a bit of the documentation it seems
that X has two fundimental problems relative to NeWS.  Please forgive
me if the newsgroup has been over this already, I'm new on it.

1.  The performance of highly interactive operations with a remote client 
are dependent on network load.  Examples are rubberbanding lines, dragging
objects, blinking things, etc.  Is there any general way to do these
things without client/server communication (other than setup)?

2.  X graphics are pixel based, so if pixel size changes the size of
things on the screen changes.

If true, both of these are bad news.  I'd appreciate a correction if I'm
misinformed.