Bug#360533: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#360533: xfce4-terminal: scrollback on long output without newlines is very slow

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:19 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> if the output of a program is a long list of data that does not
> consist 
> of newlines, xfce terminal will be very slow.  gnome terminal gets 
> around this limitation by limiting the scrollback in terms of bytes, 
> rather than line numbers.  for example, 1000 lines of scrollback
> would 
> be limited to something like 80*1000 = 80,000 bytes of scrollback 
> instead of 1000 newlines. 

I guess this use case is rather uncommon, but will report it upstream.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez