Re: Implementing image support for kitty terminal

[Gerd Möllmann]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> 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).

Where the size of packets differs in interactive use, I think.  I mean,
I can't imagine how to use SSH interactively if it waited until packets
are large enough.

Hm.  Hard to tell what effect that packeting has.  How does SSH decide
to send something over the network in interactive mode?