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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Sensible VNC encodings |
Date: | Wed, 21 May 2008 08:06:05 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) |
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi, On Tue, 20 May 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:Clearly, you have never waited one minute for a full screen update from a machine half around the planet.That is what happens here with hextile + an compressed SSH tunnel, just in case you thought this was pure speculation.It is pretty obvious why, too: generic compression, such as SSH's, will never outperform specialized compression, such as tight compression.
Tight uses zlib compression in combination with a palette mechanism. Hextile is a palette mechanism so adding zlib compression to it (via ssh) makes it pretty comparable to Tight.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
Ciao, Dscho
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