The "loop and a half"

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-10-09, alister via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:

> or if you want the luxury of a GUI editor simply ssh to the remote 
> machine & run the editor there (using X forwarding to route the display 
> to you local PC)

AFAICT, most modern GUI toolkits are no longer usable via X forwarding
at sub-gigabit network speeds.  The toolkit designers have botched
things up so that even the most trivial operation requires hundreds of
round-trips between server and client.

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