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Re:Window System X (1984) by pcwalton on Monday January 17, 2022 @07:31PM (#29973381)
> If any, I prefer plan9/9front's drawterm/cpu which runs circles over Unix/Linux VNC and RDP. By a huge mile.

How can this [1] code possibly be faster than modern hardware accelerated blitting? I don't see a line of SIMD in there.

[1]: https://github.com/9fans/drawterm/blob/master/libmemdraw/dra...

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Re:Window System X (1984) by anthk on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:13AM (#29977971)
Call me odd, but 9front on native machines looks smoother than most composited desktops here.
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Re:Window System X (1984) by jcelerier on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:44AM (#29978908)
composited WMs are so frustrating to use when you're used to non-composited
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