Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 20:23:32 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Message-ID: <199509200123.UAA13422@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509191904.MAA10411@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 19, 95 12:04:29 pm
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> Because you have to redo the string before you redraw or allow the character > entry in the "fixed length field" and interactive response will suffer > because of that. It has been my experience that the minimal resources required for X are such that even if every character required a callback the slowest component in the system is still the nut holding the keyboard. This sort of argument made sense on an 11/70 where you avoided using CBREAK mode because of the overhead, but nobody's running FreeBSD on an 8086-class machine.
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