On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:27:19PM -0700, Rick Warner wrote: > > It is not IPC, which has a specific meaning. It is network > communication. There is overhead, but it can be optimized. 10 years > ago there was a battle over which competing compressed stream > implementation to adopt. In the end, X/Org bailed and put out the > concept of LBX, with a poorly implemented sample in the code distro. > NCD was the proponent of one alternative. The idea of a compressed > network stream can and should be revived. Overhead is necessary, but it > could be lessened, and its footprint lessened even more with good > compression.
It will depend on the specific situation. Compression will do lots of good for bandwidth scarce situations, but on a LAN or standalone system it will just waste CPU. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
