I was testing the performance of pair_content() 2 different ways.
1. The very unscientific, observation that "pspg" (a db pager) was scrolling
very slowly horizontally when testing my emulator on F29 but not on Bionic.
2. I placed both instances under callgrind which surfaced pair_content() as
being quite consuming on F29 but not Bionic.
Since my terminal emulator really has no idea how the caller setup their
color pair matrix/bindings, the only reliable thing I can do is iterate through
the enumerated pairs looking for the fg / bg set they specified. Albeit, I was
already planning to write and interface that allows the implementer to supply their
own interface equivalent to pair_content() with the assumption that the caller has
intimate knowledge of the mappings. For my own demo program, I did that, and
the performance I expected returned.
The observations/differences were noted in both xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal
in F29 vs Bionic. A quick peek at both shows that in all cases TERM is set to
xterm-color256 so I doubt there's a big difference there.
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 05:30:55PM -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:
> I spent quite a bit of time tracing down performance issues on Fedora 29.
> It turns out, that for whatever reason, pair_content() is about 7x slower
> in the ncurses build that comes with Fedora 29 vs the build included with
> Bionic Beaver.
In a quick check, it seems that Fedora 29's using ABI 6 (infocmp hints that
supports 6.1's extended pairs) while Bionic is still using ABI 5:
+ no wheel-mouse
+ limited to 16 colors
Is this for the same terminal description? How are you testing pair_content?
With ABI 6 (whether or not using 6.1), you can have a lot more color pairs,
which may be misleading.
fwiw, Debian/testing seems fairly comparable to Fedora29. Ubuntu lags
that by a year or two -ymmv
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