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p-oyesterday at 9:31 PM1 replyview on HN

Wayland uses UNIX socket for message passing, but then offload most of the work to shared memory when the real work begins (GPU rendering). I just wanted to add some nuances that it's not as black and white as this comment made it seem.


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mort96yesterday at 9:39 PM

Yeah, that’s correct; I implied it by only talking about sending small messages but it’s worth stating explicitly.