alt Hacker NewsThis also means low-performing clients can make the whole Desktop stutter/freeze and it is one of the many reasons the Wayland architecture is beyond idiotic. High responsiveness is obviously far more important than avoiding the occasional artifact.
This also means low-performing clients can make the whole Desktop stutter/freeze and it is one of the many reasons the Wayland architecture is beyond idiotic. High responsiveness is obviously far more important than avoiding the occasional artifact.
Clients (apps) should still be async in Wayland; it's just the window manager that's tightly integrated. Wayland compositors should probably use some kind of fair queuing to prevent misbehaving apps from spamming the event loop but they probably don't.