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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Optimizing around the server
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Date: 17 Aug 88 14:03:32 GMT
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> 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.