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I'm curious how alacritty compares to it. The alacritty devs basically consider another terminal app rendering faster than them to be a bug on their part ;-)

I'm curious how alacritty compares to it. The alacritty devs basically consider another terminal app rendering faster than them to be a bug on their part ;-) But it does sound like it would be a good challenge.

petepete 7y ago
Kitty seemed faster than alacritty to me. I'd love to see it benchmarked, but I'd class them both in the 'fast enough' category.
- mikekchar 7y ago
  I use kitty and alacritty interchangeably on Linux/X and I don't literally can't tell the difference between the two. Sometimes I forget which one I'm using. Using pretty much anything else it's very obvious.
codesections 7y ago
> I'm curious how alacritty compares to it. The alacritty devs basically consider another terminal app rendering faster than them to be a bug on their part Note: Alacritty prides itself on fast rendering speed, but not necessarily on low latency[0]. I'm a happy Alacritty/Linux user, but I'm not sure it would win on this benchmark. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18006751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18006751
nickjj 7y ago
Alacritty has kind of a lot of input latency, it's noticeably worse than wsltty and the default WSL terminal -- at least back when I checked it a year ago. I think some work has been done to improve it, but at this point IMO if you're on Windows then wsltty is as good as it gets for a general purpose terminal. If you're on Linux, xterm is top notch.
- est31 7y ago
  What's top notch on Wayland?
  - nickjj 7y ago
    I never used Wayland, sorry.
  - 1996 7y ago
    Xorg
- bpizzi 7y ago
  I don't know, I've got two panes here opened next to each other (tiled/xmonad) with xterm and alacritty, and I've been typing in those for the last 5min, and I really can't tell the difference (my monitor has 5ms latency).
  - nickjj 7y ago
    Does it have 5ms response time or "input lag" because both are very very different and input lag isn't a spec you'll find on the box. You typically need special hardware to measure it, or find review sites that go out of their way to cover it.
sprash 7y ago
According to [1] xterm and mlterm achieve the best values for latency. 1.: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

petepete 7y ago

Kitty seemed faster than alacritty to me. I'd love to see it benchmarked, but I'd class them both in the 'fast enough' category.

mikekchar 7y ago
I use kitty and alacritty interchangeably on Linux/X and I don't literally can't tell the difference between the two. Sometimes I forget which one I'm using. Using pretty much anything else it's very obvious.

codesections 7y ago

> I'm curious how alacritty compares to it. The alacritty devs basically consider another terminal app rendering faster than them to be a bug on their part Note: Alacritty prides itself on fast rendering speed, but not necessarily on low latency[0]. I'm a happy Alacritty/Linux user, but I'm not sure it would win on this benchmark. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18006751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18006751

nickjj 7y ago

Alacritty has kind of a lot of input latency, it's noticeably worse than wsltty and the default WSL terminal -- at least back when I checked it a year ago. I think some work has been done to improve it, but at this point IMO if you're on Windows then wsltty is as good as it gets for a general purpose terminal. If you're on Linux, xterm is top notch.

est31 7y ago
What's top notch on Wayland?
- nickjj 7y ago
  I never used Wayland, sorry.
- 1996 7y ago
  Xorg
bpizzi 7y ago
I don't know, I've got two panes here opened next to each other (tiled/xmonad) with xterm and alacritty, and I've been typing in those for the last 5min, and I really can't tell the difference (my monitor has 5ms latency).
- nickjj 7y ago
  Does it have 5ms response time or "input lag" because both are very very different and input lag isn't a spec you'll find on the box. You typically need special hardware to measure it, or find review sites that go out of their way to cover it.

sprash 7y ago

According to [1] xterm and mlterm achieve the best values for latency. 1.: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/