On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, ilf wrote:
On 02-08 09:39, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
rxvt-unicode uses the wonderful optimization of not really caring
whether everything gets displayed.
I don't know if every one of those output lines is rendered on screen once.
But it doesn't need to, since I can't read it anyways, no matetr if it takes
1, 3 or the 28 seconds takes here.
What's more important is that everything is in the scrollback, which always
seems to be the case, even in rxvt.
(Although I consider this bad style. If you really need 10k lines and want to
look at them, that's what less is for.)
I agree it's bad style. Often it's unintentional (`find` on too broad a
path, very verbose Makefiles).
So I don't see the problem with rxvt's way of things. Why not do it?
As Aurélien pointed out, `st` at least behaves similarly (if not
identically). Didn't realize what hg rev I was on on that machine.
Prior test was w/ 187. With current non-xft tip (rev 228), I get
similar results: 0.2s wall time.
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Best,
Ben
