Norwegian Coder Builds X11 Server in Pure Assembly, Slashes CPU Use by Two-Thirds
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Norwegian Coder Builds X11 Server in Pure Assembly, Slashes CPU Use by Two-Thirds
Geir Isene had enough with the bloat. The Norwegian developer stared at the X11 codebase. Four million lines of code. Few understood it all. So he did what seemed reasonable to him. He wrote his own X11 server from scratch. In assembly language. The result is Frame. A single file. About 25,000 lines of x86_64 assembly. No libraries. No dependencies. No libc. It talks straight to the Linux kernel through system calls, DRM and KMS for graphics, ev…
The Norwegian Geir Isene has written an X-Server completely in assembler. It should not only work much more resource-efficiently than the counterpart of X.org, it currently only consists of about 20,000 lines of code. But there are also a few hooks. The key data of frame reads impressively as exciting: During the X.Org server from over 4
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