Re: [dev] [st] Removing timeouts in main loop

From: Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:00:01 +0200

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> If there is something to read from the tty, handle it, then wait for
> five microseconds in select() and see if the buffer filled again. If
> yes, handle this and do it again. After a certain amount of such loops
> (1000) break and redraw the terminal. This arbitary break is there be‐
> cause without it the user would see a stuttering in the output and it
> seems to go wrong. This loop number is related to my development machine
> and a better solution to calculate or replace it with a more natural
> value would be more fitting solution.

I'm not really sure it's simpler then. I will look into it tonight.

> In the benchmark you proposed (count=500) I could reproduce the same
> times as urxvt with the above changes.

I've made a mistake in the command, you should use /dev/urandom
instead of /dev/random because the latter can block on read, see $ man
4 random.
Received on Sun Sep 16 2012 - 14:00:01 CEST