[SLOF PATCH 2/2] fbuffer: Use a smaller cursor

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Tue Jul 28 20:19:55 AEST 2015


Drawing the cursor in the frame buffer memory is a very, very
slow operation. So let's simply switch to a "underscore" cursor
instead of the full block cursor to save some precious cycles.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
---
 slof/fs/fbuffer.fs | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/slof/fs/fbuffer.fs b/slof/fs/fbuffer.fs
index 0128c07..542c431 100644
--- a/slof/fs/fbuffer.fs
+++ b/slof/fs/fbuffer.fs
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ CREATE bitmap-buffer 400 4 * allot
 
 : fb8-toggle-cursor ( -- )
 	line# fb8-line2addr column# fb8-columns2bytes +
-	char-height 0 ?DO
+	char-height 3 - screen-width screen-depth * * +
+	3 0 ?DO
 		dup char-width screen-depth * invert-region
 		screen-width screen-depth * +
 	LOOP drop
-- 
1.8.3.1



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