[BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2012/05/30 at 03:35 -0400]
> 
> >What is the speech driver you use?  I've observed the same thing with 
> >the eSpeak driver as changing the pitch somehow appears to take CPU time 
> >away from the keyboard event processing, and my presumption is that the 
> >key release events are delayed long enough for the auto-repeat action to 
> >kick in.
> 
> Yes, that's what must be happening. I may look at running the keyboard event 
> handler in its own thread, but that's far too invasive to do until after 4.4 is 
> out.

Maybe it's the speech driver which should be put in a thread of its own 
instead.  Some other parts of BRLTTY could then be more responsive as 
well.

I agree that this can wait after 4.4 though.


Nicolas