Subject: Re: Why not track our xsrc with X11R6.6 from X.org?
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/19/2001 20:41:21
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:47:20AM +1000, Andrew van der Stock wrote:

> And yes, if you cross the ring 0 / ring 3 boundary less often,
> performance goes up. This will be true of XFree86 once it provides a
> shortcut to ditch tcp/ip pipes to communicate with local graphics
> hardware from local X clients, like SGI does.

eh?  I thought XFree used unix domain sockets for the local case?

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