Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.ap...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > I know st rendering is slow. I'm currently trying out different > solutions but I can tell you profiling X calls is no fun. > > tip now uses a simple dirty flag per line algorithm. > Each modified line has the flag set to 1. Only dirty lines are drawn > and once it's done their flag is set back to 0. > I've noticed a significant speed up. I'll try more ideas in the near future.
I don't know jack about efficient X11 use, but toying around with xtruss showed that xterm mostly uses ImageText16, urvxt uses PolyText8 and RenderFillRectangles when XRENDER is available and ImageText16 else, whereas st uses PolyText8 and PolyFillRectangle only. 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.) -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
