> I don't think you're suggesting we serialize the entire GUI?
Yup that's exactly what people do in some GUIs. Tons of GUI frameworks and systems rely on varying degrees of defunctionalization and serialization. Microsoft COM and XServer for example. I don't know exactly how granular they get but I believe it's quite granular in what you can do over RPC.
Yup that's exactly what people do in some GUIs. Tons of GUI frameworks and systems rely on varying degrees of defunctionalization and serialization. Microsoft COM and XServer for example. I don't know exactly how granular they get but I believe it's quite granular in what you can do over RPC.