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Subject: Re: How to make XQuartz/MacOS <--> IceCat/GuixSD fast?
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On 01/15/2018 at 13:29 George myglc2 Clemmer writes:

> I want to speed up IceCat on my GuixSD headless server. I am using
> XQuartz/MacOS over 1000BaseT to reach a server with 3.4GHz Intel E3-1240
> V3 CPU and SSD storage. ISTM this is about as fast as one can make a
> headless server. But IceCat is unusably slow.

[...]

Update: As suggested by Vladimir Sedach[1], changing the IceCat/GuixSD
about:config default gfx.xrender.enabled=false to true dramatically
speeds this up the point I am no longer thinking of new hardware. Yeah!

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-01/msg00065.html