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urban legend? slang vs. ncurses
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| joe.user0@lycos.com 2006-07-27, 4:00 am |
| >From time to time, I come across casual remarks about slang
being speedier than ncurses.
However, I google around and find nothing in the way of
empirical testing.
Yet another urban legend? Where does the opinion favouring slang
over ncurses come from?
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| Thomas Dickey 2006-07-27, 8:00 am |
| joe.user0@lycos.com wrote:
> being speedier than ncurses.
> However, I google around and find nothing in the way of
> empirical testing.
There's a little, none done systematically. The little I recall seeing
was for selected special cases. (Perhaps one of the trolls who constructed
those will come out and perform for our benefit ;-)
> Yet another urban legend? Where does the opinion favouring slang
> over ncurses come from?
urban legend. Virtually all of the comments made in that area were made
by people citing second- and third-hand opinions. Where they're doing the
same thing, slang and ncurses tend to have about the same performance.
There are tradeoffs - ncurses uses more terminfo features than slang,
but it costs more to do the choosing.
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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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