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Screen is incredibly inefficient though.

• res0nat0r 6y ago
  That's always been the argument, but it's always been perfectly fine for me. I'm using it to run long running background tasks, or just let me switch between multiple remote hosts patching / debugging them, not to render some kind of HD game.
• mprovost 6y ago
  And yet... I've been using screen for 20 years and it never seemed inefficient, even when running on a 180MHz Pentium Pro. These days I have to believe whatever it's doing must be pretty minor compared to the overall system performance, but I'd be interested in hearing what it does so inefficiently.
  • guenthert 6y ago
    It worked fine in the early nineties on a '386. I can't tell how efficient it is, because I never had reason to worry about it.
• gbraad 6y ago
  Still using screen to easily run a background which I can occasionally check up on. Never (perhaps once a year) seem to do this with tmux.
• fl0wenol 6y ago
  Genuinely curious: In what way? Also: How is tmux about serial ports/USB->serial adapters?