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Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server
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A software developer describes their project 'frame,' a custom X server written entirely in Assembly language for Linux. The author aims to optimize system performance and reduce the software stack's complexity and power consumption.
On my quest to own my software , one foundational piece kept itching… the X server. The underlying graphics engine, the thing that puts pixels on the screen. X11 is 4 million lines of code, a beast very few can claim they understand. So I did the reasonable thing. I wrote my own, in Assembly.
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