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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.173758.13832@alphalpha.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 17:37:58 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.204140.25125@crl.dec.com> jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
>Also, at least for a conventional implementation, RPC is no
>where fast enough.  X is a streaming protocol, and runs maybe
>10-30 times faster/request, since the overhead is much lower.

Don't get me wrong.  I certainly wasn't proposing that X use RPC!
I just would have preferred foregoing remoteness for efficiency.
But, it's all moot anyway.

					-kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.