There are many clients, one server. Particularly in the days before
shared libraries, this meant that by doing most byte swapping in the
server, we ended up using less memory over all. And we anticipated there
being multiple implementations of X protocol libraries: this has been
less common than we expected, though there is now a very interesting
X library under development by Bart Massey and a student.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
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> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:46:14 +0700
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> Subject: [Xpert]Question about X protocol
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> Hi!
>
> As I understand, when an X server deals with clients having
> different byte order, it is the server who does LSB<->MSB conversion, not
> the client. Is there any documentation which lists the reasons of that
> decision?
>
> (Yes, I understand that this question probably belongs to a general X
> list, but xpert list seems to be currently the most authoritative.)
>
> TIA,
> Dmitry
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