On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Aurélien Aptel
<aurelien.aptel_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've made st ~10x faster on my computer. If there are no major bugs I
> will tag tip as version 0.2.
> Here's the relevant commit message:
>
> * add a timeout value (SELECT_TIMEOUT) of 20ms in the select() call
> * wait at least 20ms (DRAW_TIMEOUT) between draw() calls
> * only copy dirty lines from the buffer to the screen
>
> what draw() does:
> * clears dirty lines in the buffer
> * draws the longest same-attributes string of each
> dirty line to the buffer with multiple xdraws() call
> * copies the current dirty line from buffer to the screen with a single
> xcopy() call
>
> this changeset makes st run ~10x faster.
>
Thanks for this! The speed increase is very noticable over here.
Received on Sun Jan 22 2012 - 03:11:17 CET