On Sun, 23 May 1999, Mosfet wrote:

> That is because there is a penalty for converting an X11 Pixmap to an X11
> XImage. One is on the server and one is in the client. You will pay this no
> matter what library you use.

What about XShm? You can have shared XImages and shared Pixmaps. Esp. the
shared Pixmap thing looks like direct access to stored pixels in the X
server to me.
 
greetings,
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