Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-08 Thread Roger
>FYI: I guess there was a commit to fix a stuttering problem, stuttering for >which I witnessed no stuttering within st-0.2.1. > >$ git bisect bad 0.3 > >Bisecting: 68 revisions left to test af

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-08 Thread Roger
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 05:24:53PM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: >Roger wrote: >> Whomever coded these early versions, might be able to very easily locate the >> slowdown explicitly at this point. > >Heyho Roger, > >just use `git bisect` to locate the commit responsible for the slowdown. FYI: I g

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-08 Thread Roger
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 05:24:53PM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: >Roger wrote: >> Whomever coded these early versions, might be able to very easily locate the >> slowdown explicitly at this point. > >Heyho Roger, > >just use `git bisect` to locate the commit responsible for the slowdown. I've heard

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-08 Thread Markus Teich
Roger wrote: > Whomever coded these early versions, might be able to very easily locate the > slowdown explicitly at this point. Heyho Roger, just use `git bisect` to locate the commit responsible for the slowdown. --Markus

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-08 Thread Roger
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 09:10:40PM -0800, Ariel A wrote: > > >On March 3, 2015 5:21:04 PM PST, Roger wrote: >>ST appears to compile and run fine on 64 bit and 32 bit platorms, >>except on 32 >>bit (i686/pentium3), typing is extremely slow. > >Try adjusting xfps and actionfps. When I had this is

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-07 Thread Nick
Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: > My proposal is to simplify the loop even if st becomes a bit > slower. What do you think guys? Sure, make it easier for you (and others) to maintain; that's more important than speed - I'd rather have stability and solidity... not to mention, your sanity is v

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-07 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Hi, > Changing line 3880, "drawtimeout.tv_set=0" to 1, I'm now able to type the > sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog", and all > characters appear without much apparent delay, except for the last char "g" > mysteriously takes up to 1-2 seconds to appear. Key repeat

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-04 Thread Roger
Changing line 3880, "drawtimeout.tv_set=0" to 1, I'm now able to type the sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown dog", and all characters appear without much apparent delay, except for the last char "g" mysteriously takes up to 1-2 seconds to appear. Key repeat also significa

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-04 Thread Roger
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:22:59AM +0100, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: > >> Try adjusting xfps and actionfps. > >I don't like this manual adjusting. We should rework the main >loop, and it is something we have said lot of times. I haven't done the tracing (or heavy math) yet, but changing

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-04 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
> Try adjusting xfps and actionfps. I don't like this manual adjusting. We should rework the main loop, and it is something we have said lot of times. Regards,

Re: [dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-03 Thread Ariel A
On March 3, 2015 5:21:04 PM PST, Roger wrote: >ST appears to compile and run fine on 64 bit and 32 bit platorms, >except on 32 >bit (i686/pentium3), typing is extremely slow. Try adjusting xfps and actionfps. When I had this issue on a 32 bit machine, I seem to remember changing fps worked.

[dev] [st] Slow ST character typing on i686/pentium3 platforms]

2015-03-03 Thread Roger
ST appears to compile and run fine on 64 bit and 32 bit platorms, except on 32 bit (i686/pentium3), typing is extremely slow. Using strace/ltrace on the latest stable 0.5, I see some hangups on the "select" call. Using the git version, I now see select substituted with pselect. The following