Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!apple!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 02:43:47 GMT References: <9011040724.AA03335@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> <1990Nov5.153646.23855@crl.dec.com> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 22 > In the case where > the client and server are known to be on the same machine, and > portability is not a consideration, an all-singing-all-dancing server > may indeed be a better way to go. One of the big problems with local X (client and server on the same machine) is context-switching back and forth between the two programs. When I was working with X interfaces to large UNIX Common Lisp environments, we found it advisable to run the environment on one machine and the display on another, purely to avoid this effect. In fact, two people would "trade" machines: I'd run my Lisp image on Fred's machine, displaying on mine, and he'd run his image on my machine, displaying on his. Noticably crisper on input... Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304