Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!ardent.UUCP!jkh From: jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: xterm/charproc.c Message-ID: <8806250517.AA20251@sim.ardent.com> Date: 25 Jun 88 05:17:05 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 In VTparse(), the main switch looks at CASE_PRINT (ordinary printable characters) last. I think it's pretty obvious that cursor control sequences would be in the minority of characters parsed so why not put this case at the top of the loop? In a number of trials, I found that doing this resulted about a 1-3% speed increase overall (wall time and CPU time). Not a big improvement, but it's a essentially free. Jordan Hubbard Ardent Computer