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Defer cursor redrawing when writing buffer #2960

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Summary of the Pull Request

Defer cursor redrawing when reading buffer

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#2932

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My previous PR #2932 introduces an overhead when writing a lot of text on screen. I found that this could be optimized by delaying cursor redraw

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To take this further, if we know there will be more _WriteBuffer on the way, we can pause the cursor render for a longer time. To my understanding we only need to redraw the cursor when there is no more buffer to print on screen.

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/azp run

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This seems reasonable to me. I'd definitely want @miniksa's thoughts though to be sure

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You will probably need to merge in master to get the CI pipeline to work again. Sorry about that!

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src/cascadia/TerminalCore/Terminal.cpp
@@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ void Terminal::_WriteBuffer(const std::wstring_view& stringView)
auto& cursor = _buffer->GetCursor();
const Viewport bufferSize = _buffer->GetSize();

cursor.StartDeferDrawing();
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Leave behind the comment explaining why this is required (for performance reasons, we can not waste time displaying a cursor event when we know more text is coming right behind it).

@miniksa miniksa changed the title Defer cursor redrawing when reading buffer Defer cursor redrawing when writing buffer Oct 11, 2019
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I'm fine with this. It looks like (in historical spelunking of our code) that some of the stream writing methods used to hide the cursor for the same reasons and it was lost to the sands of time.

@DHowett-MSFT DHowett-MSFT merged commit c905041 into microsoft:master Oct 15, 2019
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Thanks for the contribution!

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ghost commented Oct 23, 2019

🎉Windows Terminal Preview v0.6.2951.0 has been released which incorporates this pull request.:tada:

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Thank you for the great job so far. Don't know if it refers to this specific topic, but I'm running ntop in PowerShell and even in the new release (Version: 0.6.2951.0) I can see the cursor jumping up and down the screen while the screen gets refreshed. Shouldn't this be fixed by this pull request?

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Sorta. You're more likely being impacted by #3093 😄

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Throttle cursor redrawing in outputStream.cpp (#10394)
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Try to throttle the cursor redrawing in the conhost world.

The motivation of this is the high CPU usage of `TriggerRedrawCursor` (#10393).

This can be seen as the conhost version of #2960.

This saves 5%~8% of the CPU time.

Supports #10462.
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