Development console flicker

[KernelDeimos]

The issue

The prompt/widget area of the development console flickers when it re-draws. While on the surface this appears to be purely aesthetic, this flicker makes the console look a bit less stable, which might cause users to worry about missing log messages, which is not fun.

Possible solutions

The following solutions are not mutually exclusive, and are in the order that it makes sense to apply them in:

• don't update if nothing changed (relatively easy, highest gain)
• compute more before drawing

Caught in Action

Most of the time

Briefly, during a re-draw