Re: Subject: Re: success on 386 (was: Re: Does anybody try to compile...)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 06:53:18 EST


> I agree that the issue is mostly size, not speed. What makes X large isn't
> primarily the video drivers, it is the whole framework (server, xlib, toolkit,
> wm). The core of Windows 3.1/9x is most if not all hand-written assembler
> that is very tight. X is just much larger.

Im told the core of win9x is mostly C++ .

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