--- rxvt-unicode/src/screen.C	2006/01/25 21:09:21	1.252
+++ rxvt-unicode/src/screen.C	2006/01/28 14:23:16	1.254
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 
   l.touch ();
 
-  efs &= ~RS_baseattrMask;
+  efs &= ~RS_baseattrMask; // remove italic etc. fontstyles
   efs = SET_FONT (efs, FONTSET (efs)->find_font (' '));
 
   text_t *et = l.t + col;
@@ -643,14 +643,18 @@
       // erase newly scrolled-in lines
       for (int i = count; i--; )
         {
-          // basically this is a slightly optimized scr_blank_screen_mem
-          // it is worth the effort on slower machines
           line_t &l = ROW(nrow - 1 - i);
 
-          scr_blank_line (l, 0, l.l, rstyle);
-
-          l.l = 0;
-          l.f = 0;
+          // optimize if already cleared, can be significant on slow machines
+          // could be rolled into scr_blank_screen_mem
+          if (l.r && l.l < ncol - 1 && !((l.r[l.l + 1] ^ rstyle) & RS_bgMask))
+            {
+              scr_blank_line (l, 0, l.l, rstyle);
+              l.l = 0;
+              l.f = 0;
+            }
+          else
+            scr_blank_screen_mem (l, rstyle);
         }
 
       // now copy lines below the scroll region bottom to the