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Remove obscure "low-latency" parts in the introduction of spec

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According to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_%28engineering%29#Packet-switched_networks
latency means "the time from the source sending a packet to the destination
receiving it". Therefore, latency is unrelated to whether the operation is
asynchronous or synchronous. And also unrelated to whether it's one-way or
round-trip. Latency exists for asynchronous and one-way transfer, because for
current DBus implementations we need at least one context switch to transfer
each message from the sender process to the receiver process. Emphasizing
D-Bus is low-latency could encourage user to abuse/misuse the system.

Mail disscusion:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2013-May/015665.html

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65141
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
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Justin Lee 2013-05-30 03:21:31 +08:00 • committed by Simon McVittie
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@ -175,23 +175,18 @@
<sect1 id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
D-Bus is a system for low-latency, low-overhead, easy to use
D-Bus is a system for low-overhead, easy to use
interprocess communication (IPC). In more detail:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
D-Bus is <emphasis>low-latency</emphasis> because it is designed
to avoid round trips and allow asynchronous operation, much like
the X protocol.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
D-Bus is <emphasis>low-overhead</emphasis> because it uses a
binary protocol, and does not have to convert to and from a text
format such as XML. Because D-Bus is intended for potentially
high-resolution same-machine IPC, not primarily for Internet IPC,
this is an interesting optimization.
this is an interesting optimization. D-Bus is also designed to
avoid round trips and allow asynchronous operation, much like
the X protocol.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>