Hi all, I've made st ~10x faster on my computer. If there are no major bugs I will tag tip as version 0.2. Here's the relevant commit message:
* add a timeout value (SELECT_TIMEOUT) of 20ms in the select() call * wait at least 20ms (DRAW_TIMEOUT) between draw() calls * only copy dirty lines from the buffer to the screen what draw() does: * clears dirty lines in the buffer * draws the longest same-attributes string of each dirty line to the buffer with multiple xdraws() call * copies the current dirty line from buffer to the screen with a single xcopy() call this changeset makes st run ~10x faster.