On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.ap...@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.
