Re: Really slow xterm
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2007-05-17 11:03:57 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> For "large" scrollbacks, e.g., more than 10,000 lines,
>> xterm has its own problems.
> Hmm... yes. I've tried with xterm using a 20,000-line scrollback,
> and zsh:
> for i in {1..30000}; echo $i
> On my 400 Mhz PowerBook G4, Debian/testing, XTerm 225: 71 seconds
> (but only 6 seconds with a 600-line scrollback).
> With rxvt (and a 20,000-line scrollback): 17 seconds.
That contrast looks about right - for an xterm running on the same machine
as the server (which is the most common case for Linux users). It's
an ugly slice of code to rewrite in xterm, but is fixable (preferably
_not_ when I'm trying to fix urgent bugs ;-).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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