libxcb message - is it still relevant

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> As far as I could tell xcb is currently the default Xlib. Is the
> following message that libXcb is experimental still true?
> *****************************************************************
> Although libxcb can yield dramatic improvements in speed,
> memory footprint, and responsiveness, and will probably
> become the default Xlib for X.org/freedesktop.org, it is
> still experimental software.  Some broken callers will abort()
> on locking assertion failures.  As a temporary workaround, set
> LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK in your environment to skip the abort().
> This may result in noisy stacktrace printing.
> *****************************************************************

No, but if the - informal - experiments I made are correct the claims
about "dramatic improvements in speed" are an exaggeration.

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