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Dan Luu wrote about terminal latency a while back [1]. Eshell is actually the shell with the least overall latency. Is is, though, very slow at sinking stdout,
by vmsp 8y ago
Dan Luu wrote about terminal latency a while back [1]. Eshell is actually the shell with the least overall latency. Is is, though, very slow at sinking stdout, which is probably what you are noticing.
[1] https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
- ealhad 8y agoThanks for the read.
- emj 8y agoThanks for that link, but it does note that this is also latency, i.e. transmission delay, and at 500KB/s Eshell has a very high latency for bulk transfer especially considering it's 10MB/s slower than the nearest comptitor. How much this affects your work varies, but you will adapt and change you behaviour because of that latency.
- JdeBP 8y agoThe subject has also come up on Hacker News recently. * https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894706) * https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933892)