On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> wrote: > If there is something to read from the tty, handle it, then wait for > five microseconds in select() and see if the buffer filled again. If > yes, handle this and do it again. After a certain amount of such loops > (1000) break and redraw the terminal. This arbitary break is there be‐ > cause without it the user would see a stuttering in the output and it > seems to go wrong. This loop number is related to my development machine > and a better solution to calculate or replace it with a more natural > value would be more fitting solution.
I'm not really sure it's simpler then. I will look into it tonight. > In the benchmark you proposed (count=500) I could reproduce the same > times as urxvt with the above changes. I've made a mistake in the command, you should use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random because the latter can block on read, see $ man 4 random.
