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Coincidentally xterm is the fastest I know, in particular if you use bitmap fonts. Gnome-Terminal for instance feels rather sluggish.
by jstimpfle 8y ago
Coincidentally xterm is the fastest I know, in particular if you use bitmap fonts. Gnome-Terminal for instance feels rather sluggish.
- rancor 8y agoIn my experience, urxvt is both faster and uses less memory than xterm by a good margin, although there's not such an appreciable difference on a modern system. Gnome Terminal, on the other hand, is beyond slow, far worse than the still slow but acceptable Konsole.
- craftyguy 8y agoA while back LWN did a great comparison of terminal emulators, performance was one aspect they looked at: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
- jstimpfle 8y agoAlways nice to see one's own subjective experiences backed up by hard measurements :-)