Not to thread the X server [was: to thread the X server]

Xavier Bestel xavier.bestel at free.fr
Thu Jun 19 00:31:59 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:22 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12:15AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > And while Amiga in 1992 had completely smooth mouse pointer, we don't have it
> > in 2008. 
> 
> I have seen Xterminals doing the same in 1993 on the hardware that is
> approximately driving your harddisks nowadays. Over a 10 Mbit/s network.
> I don't think multi-threading is the answer here....

That doesn't mean much. Your X terminal was probably not based on
Xfree86, it could have any architecture. It could even be an Amiga
inside :)

	Xav





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