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smrtinsert on July 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Remote Desktop Protocol in Node.js

VNC is supposedly much slower than RDP.

scott_karana on July 7, 2015 [–]

VNC is a raster/pixel protocol. RDP uses Windows' drawing primitives.

So for anything that's not intrinsically raster (video, 3d rendering), RDP is certainly faster. :)

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