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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: ache@astral.msk.su, scrappy@ki.net
Subject: Re: termcap/curses vs ncurses
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>> 	How about libtermcap?

>It will be nuked on libncurses->libcurses migration, i.e.
>it will be link to libncurses too.

In the current libtermcap, tparm() is 7 times slower than tgoto() on the
ANSI "cm" string.  libncurses uses tparm() for everything, so it is quite
slow.  Is the latest version of libncurses faster?

Bruce