Re: What, exactly, _is_ "line-breakout optimization"?

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Bill,

At 2024-05-19T22:13:33-0400, Bill Gray wrote:
> On 5/19/24 17:06, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/blob/master/ncurses/tty/tty_update.c#L1018
> > https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/blob/master/ncurses/tty/tty_update.c#L367
> 
>    Interesting.  Looks as if a check for key input is done every five
>    changed lines,  if typeahead() is enabled.

Yup.  What I'm still not clear on (because I haven't looked hard
enough) it whether what gets interrupted is the update of newscr to
curscr, or the actual terminal I/O (which if successfully completed
would update curscr, I think).

I could use a graph with data structures as the nodes and function calls
as the arcs.  :)

> > Too bad those line numbers will desync over time.  cgit makes it
> > easier to pin a URL to a tag.  I'm not sure how to do it on GitHub.
> > (Anyone know?)
> 
> Click on the line number of interest (367 or 1018).  "..." appears;
> click on that.  You get the options to 'copy line',  'copy permalink',
> 'view git blame',  or 'view file in different branch/tag'.  You want
> the second option,  a permanent link to that line in that branch :
[snip]

Thanks!  I'll keep this in mind.

Regards,
Branden

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