Re: [dev] [st] Drawing performance

2012-01-29 Thread Aurélien Aptel
...aaand the attachement. *sigh* slowtest.sh Description: Bourne shell script

Re: [dev] [st] Drawing performance

2012-01-29 Thread Aurélien Aptel
First, thank you for the time you spent on st. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Galos, David wrote: > I've written a patch which drastically improves st's performance > in interactive console applications, like htop, vim or alsamixer. > However, catting /dev/urandom is actually worsened , becaus

[dev] [st] Drawing performance

2012-01-29 Thread Galos, David
I've written a patch which drastically improves st's performance in interactive console applications, like htop, vim or alsamixer. However, catting /dev/urandom is actually worsened , because of XCopyArea overhead. The method used was actually to make st dumber. Rather than doing any accounting, in