Re: [dev] [st] 0.2 is out

From: Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:49:48 +0100

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <suckless_AT_benizi.com> wrote:
> rxvt-unicode uses the wonderful optimization of not really caring whether
> everything gets displayed.  As a test, simulate some command that produces
> output that can't actually be read -- like from a noisy makefile, the
> non-error output of TeX, or an accidental `find`:
>
> find / | sed 10000q > ~/find10000
> time cat ~/find10000
>
> uxterm takes 2.6 seconds to display text I can't possibly read.
> urxvt finishes instantly, only taking 0.04 seconds of wall time.
> st takes 50.1 seconds.

st does the same thing now:
cat ~/find10000 0.00s user 0.03s system 37% cpu 0.089 total

> If you're on the 'xft' branch, you'll need a different format, e.g.:
>
> #define XFT_FONT "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-13"

Curiously, the xft branch doesn't become unresponsive in the tmux
scrolling case.
Received on Wed Feb 08 2012 - 15:49:48 CET