Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Or even, do we still have terminals connected with, don't know, say 1200 
>> baud or some such?
> I don't think so, but we do have slow net links and ssh logins.

I wonder how this interacts with our display optimizations, to be
honest: slow network connections tend to suffer mostly in terms of
"packets per second" rather than "bytes per second", so an optimization
makes a difference only if it changes the size of a display update
from N+1 packets to N packets (or fewer).

E.g. when our display updates (counted in bytes and without frame-based
redisplay) fall below the "1 packet" limit (which I presume is around
1.5kB), then using frame-based redisplay doesn't make any noticeable
difference to "ssh logins over congested/slow networks".


        Stefan