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minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍linkfedilink19•2 months agoX11 started as 4000 GNU hacks in a trenchcoat. I’d imagine some things it does are extremely efficient but everything has to go through a Rube Goldberg machine to get to the efficient bit.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoPlus a million lines of C code with buffers that are all different sizes
X11 started as 4000 GNU hacks in a trenchcoat. I’d imagine some things it does are extremely efficient but everything has to go through a Rube Goldberg machine to get to the efficient bit.
Plus a million lines of C code with buffers that are all different sizes