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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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X11 started as 4000 GNU hacks in a trenchcoat. I'd imagine some things it does are extremely efficient but everything has to go through a Rube Goldberg machine to get to the efficient bit.
Plus a million lines of C code with buffers that are all different sizes