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Re: Patch for line draw characters problem & screen scrolling
>>> 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.
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| HOKURIKU Center for Information Science
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