Re: [dev] Re: [st] Drawing optimizations

From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:04:38 +0000

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Christian Neukirchen
<chneukirchen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps its faster to draw onto an image and then display that?  (urxvt
> also does the optimization of only updating the window at screen
> frequency or something, so it doesn't render all lines of text flushing
> by.)
>
Judging from my experience with Linux virtual console terminals, not
redrawing the screen for every line of input (i.e. output) is crucial
for achieving acceptable performance.
Received on Fri Oct 21 2011 - 15:04:38 CEST