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I tested it about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954002 It's pretty much on par with Visual

I tested it about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954002 It's pretty much on par with Visual Studio Code. There's also this: https://github.com/dsissitka/dev-env-config/commit/96f162c4bd8cf07a84a19c0c52a0b4cbe58393a9 https://github.com/dsissitka/dev-env-config/commit/96f162c4b... They still claim it's "the fastest terminal emulator in existence."

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
I fought really hard to like alacritty and tune it to be fast and ultimately it was laggy and slow as heck. The rendering pass was abysmal last I checked. If there are too many characters on the screen, fps falls off a cliff. No modern terminal should have render performance of O(n), n=characters. If I hit enter you don't need to re-rasterize all those glyphs.