Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo

[Óscar Fuentes]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

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> I regularly get complaints from people about redisplay over the
> network.  The problem as usual is not bandwidth (what is measured by
> "14.4k"), but latency.  It's the number of roundtrips that matters,
> and modern WANs often have greater average latency than a modem line.

Using NX improves things a lot. I find it usable over 50 Kbps Internet
connections, with a ping of ~100 ms.

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