This field was used during development to measure the
coverage of the ANSI terminal parser against typical
terminal input sequences.
The "handled" field has not been read by any code since
commit 1ee54cd7 (February 2011). Eliminating the field
by popular request (closes#723).
ASCII <-> UTF has trivial mappings. Avoid wcrtomb() and mbrtowc().
ISO-8859-1 is all narrow characters, and cheap to test for. It might
be possible to cheaply test other popular UTF blocks and/or planes as
well.
These two changes get 2-3x faster input processing on Linux and
FreeBSD. Performance improvement in actual usage is more modest but
still significant.
* Reduce the size of Terminal::Cell.
* Change colors and attributes in Terminal::Rendition to bitfields/bitmask.
* Change Cells to use UTF-8 strings instead of vector<wchar_t>. Store Rows in a vector instead of a deque.
* Add various Framebuffer::append() methods for more efficient passing of single and repeated characters.
* Change title/icon strings from deques to a vector typedef-- this is more for tidiness than any real performance.
Keith Winstein