Lionel Fourquaux offers this very simple patch to speed up SFTP,

[sgt/putty] / terminal.c

diff --git a/terminal.c b/terminal.c
index db61a1a..806d650 100644 (file)
--- a/terminal.c
+++ b/terminal.c
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+/*
+ * Terminal emulator.
+ */
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
@@ -4822,10 +4826,12 @@ static void do_paint(Terminal *term, Context ctx, int may_optimise)
                != newline[j].attr) {
                int k;
 
-               for (k = laststart; k < j; k++)
-                   term->disptext[i]->chars[k].attr |= ATTR_INVALID;
+               if (!dirtyrect) {
+                   for (k = laststart; k < j; k++)
+                       term->disptext[i]->chars[k].attr |= ATTR_INVALID;
 
-               dirtyrect = TRUE;
+                   dirtyrect = TRUE;
+               }
            }
 
            if (dirtyrect)