An anonymous reader writes "In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled "Why is Linux Chrome so fast", a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: "On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there."
Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?" Link to Original Source
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