> They usually hang waiting for their sync to the X server to complete.
> During that delay the application doesn't do anything else (ie. no I/O
> read from disk or written to audio device).
That happens also with applications without any X connection or with
completely separate threads to do audio work. Large blits can take long time
to complete and eat full bus bandwidth all that time.
- Jussi Laako
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