Tk Source Code

@nab -- OK.  I looked at it.  And, amazingly enough, I found something.  It turns
out that it is not Apple's fault that [NSView drawRect] is always called with
the full bounding rectangle of the NSView.  It is my fault.  I think I might
have fixed that in the branch
[https://core.tcl.tk/tk/timeline?r=bug-06f3922f8b|bug-06f3922f8b].

When I removed all of the strange and unnecessary nesting from the script you
posted in the report and simply gridded all of the buttons as children of one
frame then I was not able to get the CPU usage much above 10% even when wildly
moving the mouse around like no real user would ever do.  The same kind of
crazy mouse action in a terminal window uses 5% CPU.  So I don't think we are
going to do much better than that.  I'll attach the simplified script.

WARNING: this needs a lot of testing in a lot of different situations before it
can be merged.  We need to make sure we aren't creating new graphics artifacts.
My first attempt would create garbage when moving canvas items quickly.  There
could be lots of other things like that.