Re: Slow image display over network

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think that this is relevant for remote operation.  Emacs goes
> through a complex call chain for every single pixel of an X image in
> order to create it.  Quite nonsensical.

So are you suggesting that this can be fixed?

> Once it is through, it goes to the X server as one image if I am not
> mistaken, and gets moved into a pixmap (the Emacs image cache).  So
> the worst that can happen is that it is in a format not best for
> remote transfer.

First it's transferred pixel-by-pixel, and then it's transferred as an
image? 

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