Before this patch, Alacritty's PTY reader would always try to read the
PTY into a buffer and then wait for the acquisition of the terminal lock
to process this data. Since locking for the terminal could take some
time, the PTY could fill up with the thread idling while doing so.
As a solution, this patch keeps reading to a buffer while the terminal
is locked in the renderer and starts processing all buffered data as
soon as the lock is released.
This has halfed the runtime of a simple `cat` benchmark from ~9 to ~4
seconds when the font size is set to `1`. Running this patch with
"normal" grid densities does not appear to make any significant
performance differences in either direction.
One possible memory optimization for the future would be to use this
buffer for synchronized updates, but since this currently uses a dynamic
buffer and would be a bit more cluttered, it has not been implemented in
this patch.
Keeping the license as part of every file bloats up the files
unnecessarily and introduces an additional overhead to the creation of
new modules.
Since cargo already provides excellent dependency management, most of
the code-reuse of Alacritty should occur through Rust's dependency
management instead of copying it source.
If code is copied partially, copying the license from the main license
file should be just as easy as copying from the top of the file and
making some adjustments based on where it is used is likely necessary
anyways.
Christian Duerr