Looks like you need a Dhrystone (Am I the first one to make this joke?)
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Yes. The whole idea of curses is that it keeps a local representation of current terminal contents and desired terminal contents, then diffs them and solves an optimization problem for getting from one to other with fewest bytes. Wasting mem & cpu. Because 300 baud modems.
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But diffing things is a common programming technique. Think compression, version control - all predates curses. Hell, even MPEG is a glorified diffing.
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