Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.3dev.22

[T.E.Dickey]

> I also like slang better. It's lighter and faster than ncurses. To dispaly 
> the same thing, lynx/ncurses uses a lot more resources than lynx/slang, which 
> slows down the display. For example, when displaying the same page, 
> lynx/ncurses sends 3024 characters (control and printable) to the screen, 
> while lynx/slang sends only 1266 characters. 

I'm assuming you're still doing what you did before:  using a non-bce
terminfo on a terminal that can support bce - ncurses therefore paints
more of the background explicitly (slang doesn't support non-bce
terminals, such as dtterm).

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