On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:17:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-05-16 04:34 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: ... > Thanks, that helps. :-) > > > f-irc, by the way, hits that function about a hundred times more than > > the worst-case (7.2 million versus 65 thousand). > > Yes, the double loop in init_nick_colorpairs() is horribly inefficient.
agreed - I tried tracing it to see the function-calls and got a large trace-file. > Try to start f-irc with TERM=xterm-direct, I killed it after two > minutes of using 100% CPU. I don't think I can make compensating improvements in ncurses to fix this :-) > > The usual application won't do anything like that... > > There's a reason why nobody had noticed the problem earlier, I guess. right - a normal application would initialize the color pair (unless they were explicitly using the "RGB" extension). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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