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Re: Patch for line draw characters problem & screen scrolling

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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