Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?

[Bela Lubkin]

Greg Barniskis wrote:

Greg>> I seem to recall listening in on a conversation several months ago 
(maybe  
Greg>> on a FreeBSD list, regarding an ftp client?) wherein a continuously  
Greg>> updated display of total bytes transferred was causing a problem. 

Greg>> The gist of the discussion was that the display system couldn't keep up  
Greg>> with the screen updates -- the byte count was changing too fast. I think 
 
Greg>> the problem was traced to a buffer (in curses?)...  I'm pretty sure that 
 
Greg>> the solution was to not to use total bytes transferred as the unit to  
Greg>> display. 

Thomas E. Dickey replied:

Tom> We (I & LP) already addressed this by keeping the rate of display down to
Tom> once per second (I didn't look closely at Bela's patch yet).

Well, I didn't touch that.  If the update pacing was working right
before, it's still working now...

>Bela<