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I laughed real hard at this phrasing: > Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Bold.
by moistoreos 8y ago
I laughed real hard at this phrasing:
> Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence.
Bold.
- adtac 8y agoEspecially true when the methodology to test performance was just `find /usr` [1], and comparing it with a just a few alternatives. I'm sure they have a better and more thorough benchmark these days, but that was pretty funny. [1] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/289 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/289
- whyever 8y agoDepends what you mean by "fast". It seems to have the highest stdout throughput, but that is not necessarily the most important metric: https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/