patch 9.2.0010: Using Wayland compositor is still slow
Problem: Using the Wayland backend in GTK, rendering remains slow due
to per-line redraws, unnecessary Cairo push/pop groups, and
scroll operations that allocate new surfaces repeatedly.
Solution: Improve rendering performance (Christoffer Aasted).
This commit does the following:
- Add gui.is_wayland to detect Wayland backend
- Avoid blocking the input loop
- Skip early redraws; let the compositor handle full-screen redraws
- Use CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE to overwrite instead of blend
- Reuse scroll source region for destination scroll region
- Optimize fast scroll-up
- Remove cairo_push_group/pop_group and cairo_clip in scroll path
to reduce allocations (~50MB saved on 4K fractional scale)
Since Wayland redraws the entire screen between updates (unlike X11),
further performance gains are possible by batching drawing in other code
paths, e.g.:
- message.c: batch lines to avoid scroll
- term.c: batch terminal redraws
These could be refactored later to deferred redraw with Wayland.
closes: #19062
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Aasted <dezzadk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>