Once upon a time, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie(a)develer.com> said:
Hmmm! So termcap also has algoritmic disadvantages that outweight
its smaller size relative to ncurses.
Remember though that /bin/sh (aka bash) has many uses that are
non-interactive and don't ever look up a termcap/terminfo entry
(probably many more such uses than interactive). The lookup slowdown
probably does not outweigh any dynamic linking slowdown or memory
overhead.
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