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From: jg@jumbo.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: uwm.new.patch5.
Message-ID: <1117@jumbo.dec.com>
Date: 16 Dec 87 06:55:04 GMT
References: <8712160152.AA16034@dana.ether>
Reply-To: jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys)
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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V11 Xlib lacks a batch window creation routine because it doesn't need it.

In V10, each create window cost you a round trip to get the window id,
unless you had a clever routine to batch up the requests and get the pile
of replys all at once.  XCreateWindows was a work around in V10 to get
around the round trip.

In V11, resource ID's are allocated by the client, so no round trip is
required to create a window.  Since the interface no longer would have
provided any advantage, it was removed on simplicity grounds.
					Jim Gettys