Patch for line draw characters problem & screen scrolling
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Thu May 22 19:07:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 02:39:30PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 21 May 2003 12:22:32 -0400
>>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
>
>> >* fhandler_console.cc (write_normal): cancelled premature optimization, do
>> >always use scroll_screen instead of '\n' sometimes
>>
>> No. This section of code has been hacked back and forth for years. This
>> one is not going to happen.
>
>As an additional explanation, this optimization makes the
>scrolling down accelerate considerably (2-3 times faster)
>on Win9x/Me.
Thanks. I knew we had a good reason for this but I forgot what
it was.
cgf
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