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[thijser]

The idea is simple: every so many (100?  200?) the game checks if a certain body of water has a spread of only 1 diffrence in water depth (for example 4/7 and 5/7). This would mean that these bodies of water would cause fewer fps isseus. This breaks when a wall is deconstructed near the body of water a hatch, door, floodgate or a mine/channel designation is completed.

Additionally it could work if a few tiles get bellow the standard level (1 tile 3/7) then one of the higher tiles could teleport into it (1x 3/7 9 x 4/7 15x 5/7 becomes 10x4/7 and 14x5/7 ). This would make it seem like there is a more complex system at work that actually simulates the detailed depth of the water way more then just the 1/7's accuracy that it actually does.

[NW_Kohaku]

This is actually very similar to what already exists in-game.  When you break a wall holding back water, it actually takes something like 50 steps before the water "realizes" this, and the dwarf who broke the wall can run several steps away before the water starts chasing him.

What this game really needs is a way to stop calculating every single tile of water individually, and blindly throwing water back and forth.  See:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=61215.msg1427367#msg1427367