zz: I don't understand everything that's going on...

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

... but I'd like to applaud all of you.  This is great work
 that's happening.
 
Ted


At 03:05 AM 11/20/98 +1100, you wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 08:16:56PM +1100, Bek Oberin wrote:
>> I'm prodding at source again and I don't quite see why window_draw
>> needs to know whether there was a key pressed.
>> 
>> Is it because that's shown up in the window border, rather than
>> in the middle?
>> 
>> I also can't figure out how to cope with that special-case while
>> decoupling  the functions from IO.
>> 
>> Perhaps window_draw needs to know what happened so it can figure out
>> what to draw?  eg window_draw("cursor moved"), window_draw("cell
>> marked") or something?  That seems inelegant to me.
>
>No, you're on completely the wrong track.  It's because when input
>is queued up, there's no point in drawing the whole screen when it is
>most likely just about to change again.  More to the point, we want to
>avoid performing large numbers of database lookups for cells and links
>that the user probably didn't need to see right now anyway.  This is
>an extremely significant high-level user interface optimisation without
>which performance of scrolling through many cells can degrade severely
>to the point where the system becomes unpleasant to use, especially on
>slower systems.
>
>Hope that helps,
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