Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Optimizing around the server Message-ID: <8808171403.AA00642@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 88 14:03:32 GMT References: <5058@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena Lines: 15 > Because our applications run on many different types of hosts, > we're not about to try to optimize any particular server... What's > more, it's not our responsibility to the client to provide "server" > support and/or optimization. Absolutely correct. Market pressures will encourage workstation vendors to improve the performance of their software (i.e. the X server) and hardware. "Customers" of all types should make a fuss rather than quietly accept the foibles of something for which they've paid good money. This doesn't rule out the possibility that a particular sequence of operations might be more efficiently performed on the client side, either because of special algorithms, special hardware, or a different compute engine available to the client.