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A quick note:

>Or is the Canvas so clever that is uses genuine double buffering
>(bypassing the usual socket transmission) ?

XFree86 supports the "SHM" extension. Ergo, when running on the same
machine as the display, there is no socket transmission of data. The
Xlib routines draw directly into the server's framebuffer image via
shm. The vast majority of audio programs will run this way, I would
imagine. 

--p

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