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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	slof@lists.ozlabs.org, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SLOF] [SLOF PATCH 2/2] fbuffer: Use a smaller cursor
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:42:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150729034221.GE28839@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B8430C.8060008@ozlabs.ru>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 01:05:48PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >  : fb8-toggle-cursor ( -- )
> >  	line# fb8-line2addr column# fb8-columns2bytes +
> >-	char-height 0 ?DO
> >+	char-height 3 - screen-width screen-depth * * +
> >+	3 0 ?DO
> 
> Why not just:
> 
> -	char-height 0 ?DO
> +	1 0 ?DO
> 
> ? What is this magic with screen-width about?

Thomas' patch draws the cursor as the bottom three lines of a
character cell; your suggestion would draw it as the top one line.
But indeed it could be

  char-height dup 3 - ?DO ...


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-29  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28 10:19 [SLOF PATCH 0/2] fbuffer: Improve the speed of the cursor drawing Thomas Huth
2015-07-28 10:19 ` [SLOF PATCH 1/2] fbuffer: Improve invert-region helper Thomas Huth
2015-07-28 17:04   ` Segher Boessenkool
2015-07-28 21:00     ` Thomas Huth
2015-07-28 10:19 ` [SLOF PATCH 2/2] fbuffer: Use a smaller cursor Thomas Huth
2015-07-29  3:05   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-07-29  3:42     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2015-07-29  6:03       ` [SLOF] " Thomas Huth

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