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SubjectRe: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficiencies"
Bill Huey wrote:

> The time resolution of the GUI based controls is much better than anything
> I've encountered by an over-bloated X Windows API. Their C++ based GUI is
> exceptionally snappy and deferes/delays screen redraws during a Window
> move/resize so the GUI doesn't lock for ridiculously long time periods.

That is lack of widget toolkit, application, and (somewhat) kernel threading.
It has little to do with X Windows API, or that it's C++.

Simply put, Unix programs rarly are written with threads. They should be.

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