Re: [Nano-devel] nano 2.3.3 way slower (w/colorization?)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Mon 16 Jun 2014 11:57:59 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014, at 9:50, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > has anyone else noticed that starting with nano 2.3.3, colorized files
> > seem to be way slower ?  it seems like nano is constantly refreshing the
> > entire screen when it shouldn't.
> 
> It sometimes feels a bit slower.  But when I try to compare, I can't
> really notice any difference.
> 
> Nevertheless, 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 should be a bit slower than 2.3.2,
> because there is a call to wredrawln() for every screen line (see
> svn diff -c 4907), which bypasses the optimization of ncurses, and
> two extra calls to wattroff() for every coloured line (see svn diff
> -c 4902).  If you undo those two changes, does the speed return to
> "normal"?

thanks, that seems to do the trick

> (Is there some simple program that I can run that will hog the
> CPU and thus reliably "slow down" the computer?  Or maybe these
> virtualization packages have a knob to regulate speed?  Because
> the boxes I can ssh to are too fast and the connection is too.)

if you want to load the CPU, you could use cpuburn.  but i think it's easier 
to see the problem over a network link w/high latency.  that might be easier 
to simulate ...
-mike

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