Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:45:01 -0400 | From | Dave Cinege <> | Subject | Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficiencies" |
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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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