[BRLTTY] Support for 'dead' or broken cells?

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Wed Mar 28 10:28:24 EDT 2007


On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Jason White wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:25:07AM +0200, yan at mistigri.org wrote:
> > Yes this could be an interresting feature:
> > In the core we could make a difference bitween the 'real length ' of the 
> > display and the 'actually used length'. 
> > Moreover we would have to implement something like a table refering to 
> > cells that are 'down' or 'not working'..
> 
> Can this be done without affecting performance in the 99.9% of cases in which
> this is not used?

Performance is really not an issue for such a feature.

I really doubt you'd be able to measure any difference on a profile with 
and without such a feature.


Nicolas


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