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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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