Issues of state

[Paul Rubin]

greg <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> An X server connection is *much* more stateful than
> an HTTP one. It persists throughout the entire use
> session of the application, for one thing, and there
> is heaps of state being kept on both sides of the
> connection. There's also a very high communication
> bandwidth between them. There's really no comparison.

The high bandwidth and persistence is not needed for an http
connection, which just gets a form submission once in a while.  The
persistence and bandwidth is instead present in the X connection
between the window system and the browser.