GNU bug report logs - #57727
29.0.50; Optimize tty display updates

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Message #25 received at 57727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 57727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57727: 29.0.50; Optimize tty display updates
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:29:13 +0300

> Cc: 57727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:33:12 +0200
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > That seems a bit over-engineered to me.
> > Why not just a DEVAR_BOOL to control whether we flush or not?
> 
> Ok.  My thoughts went like so:

FWIW, I don't think this is over-engineered.  The suspend/resume dance
caused me to raise a brow, but I guess you cannot otherwise reset the
terminal settings?

> 2. I don't believe that just avoiding fflush will be enough.  THe code
> currently uses a buffer of size BUFSIZ, which is OS-specific.  On my
> system, for instance, BUFSIZ = 1024.  Don't know about MS-Windows today,
> but I remember it being 512 there at some time.

It's still 512.  But buffered stdio functions in the MS-Windows
runtime use 4K buffers, AFAIK, not 512B buffers.

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