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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,alt.toolkits.xview,comp.windows.x
Subject: xview needs fast network
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Date: 16 Feb 91 04:57:20 GMT
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I've noticed that the xview tools run very slowly over a low speed network
(SLIP, localtalk, ..). So just for fun, I ran xscope to compare the traffic
generated by echoing a single keystroke in cmdtool as contrasted with xterm.

cmdtool needed 336 bytes of traffic, where xterm needed 60. This is just
the x-protocol data, and doesn't count the KeyPress event.

This was the easiest thing to measure, but just about everything else I
try in xview runs poorly over a slow link too.

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