a bit faster CompactHistoryType::scroll

src/history/HistoryScroll.h

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ public:
 
     // adding lines.
     virtual void addCells(const Character a[], const int count) = 0;
+    virtual void addCellsMove(Character a[], const int count) = 0;
     // convenience method - this is virtual so that subclasses can take advantage
     // of QVector's implicit copying
     virtual void addCellsVector(const QVector<Character> &cells)

src/history/HistoryScrollFile.h

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ public:
     LineProperty getLineProperty(const int lineno) const override;
 
     void addCells(const Character text[], const int count) override;
+    void addCellsMove(Character text[], const int count) override { addCells(text, count); } // TODO: optimize, if there's any point
     void addLine(LineProperty lineProperty = 0) override;
 
     // Modify history

src/history/HistoryScrollNone.cpp

@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ void HistoryScrollNone::addCells(const Character[], int)
 {
 }
 
+void HistoryScrollNone::addCellsMove(Character[], int)
+{
+}
+
 void HistoryScrollNone::addLine(LineProperty)
 {
 }

src/history/HistoryScrollNone.h

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ public:
     LineProperty getLineProperty(const int lineno) const override;
 
     void addCells(const Character a[], const int count) override;
+    void addCellsMove(Character a[], const int count) override;
     void addLine(const LineProperty lineProperty = 0) override;
 
     // Modify history (do nothing here)

src/history/compact/CompactHistoryScroll.cpp

@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ void CompactHistoryScroll::addCells(const Character a[], const int count)
     }
 }
 
+void CompactHistoryScroll::addCellsMove(Character characters[], const int count)
+{
+    std::move(characters, characters + count, std::back_inserter(_cells));
+
+    // store the (biased) start of next line + default flag
+    // the flag is later updated when addLine is called
+    _lineDatas.push_back({static_cast<unsigned int>(_cells.size() + _indexBias), LINE_DEFAULT});
+
+    if (_lineDatas.size() > _maxLineCount + 5) {
+        removeLinesFromTop(5);
+    }
+}
+
+
 void CompactHistoryScroll::addLine(const LineProperty lineProperty)
 {
     auto &flag = _lineDatas.back().flag;

src/history/compact/CompactHistoryScroll.h

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ public:
     LineProperty getLineProperty(const int lineNumber) const override;
 
     void addCells(const Character a[], const int count) override;
+    void addCellsMove(Character a[], const int count) override;
     void addLine(const LineProperty lineProperty = 0) override;
 
     void removeCells() override;

src/history/compact/CompactHistoryType.cpp

@@ -40,12 +40,13 @@ void CompactHistoryType::scroll(std::unique_ptr<HistoryScroll> &old) const
     Character line[LINE_SIZE];
     int lines = (old != nullptr) ? old->getLines() : 0;
     int i = qMax((lines - (int)_maxLines), 0);
+    std::vector<Character> tmp_line;
     for (; i < lines; i++) {
         int size = old->getLineLen(i);
         if (size > LINE_SIZE) {
-            auto tmp_line = std::make_unique<Character[]>(size);
-            old->getCells(i, 0, size, tmp_line.get());
-            newScroll->addCells(tmp_line.get(), size);
+            tmp_line.resize(size);
+            old->getCells(i, 0, size, tmp_line.data());
+            newScroll->addCellsMove(tmp_line.data(), size);
             newScroll->addLine(old->getLineProperty(i));
         } else {
             old->getCells(i, 0, size, line);