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Alacritty is slower than Terminal.app..[1] perhaps placebo effects were/are in play? [1]https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/

• jwilm 9y ago
  The article you linked is specifically about latency. There are other factors that contribute to overall terminal experience such as high frame rate and high throughput. Once latency reaches a "good enough" level, it becomes a non issue, and frame rate and throughput remain. Alacritty excels in those areas (there's even a table in that article demonstrating Alacritty's high throughput). There is also a plan[1] for making Alacritty's latency best-in-class. [1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673
• squeaky-clean 9y ago
  I haven't gone through the whole link yet, but the part where they make video game comparisons doesn't make sense. They say > When people measure actual end-to-end latency for games on normal computer setups, they usually find latencies in the 100ms range. And in that very sentence link to a latency test for a game that is notorious for being laggy, and even then it reaches 59.4ms latency. The same video they link, even says (at 1:32) that Overwatch has a button-to-pixel-change latency of about 15 ms! So where is this "usually 100ms" coming from? Just because of this I don't really trust the rest of the article.