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Yeah, this was my take away as well. Also, iirc their claims of Alacritty being the "fastest" are dubious at best. I used Kitty for a while instead, which is v

Yeah, this was my take away as well. Also, iirc their claims of Alacritty being the "fastest" are dubious at best. I used Kitty for a while instead, which is very similar. More recently I've been trying out Foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

xyzzy_plugh 5y ago
Dubious indeed. I gave Alacritty a really good shot, as I was super excited to have a faster terminal. But my entire experience was plagued with slowdowns -- huge latencies, cat'ing huge files was very slow. I spent tons of time trying to tune things to make it good but it just never got there. Basically every other "simple" terminal I've found behaves better -- xterm, urxvt, konsole, even iTerm2. I have no idea how they can claim "fastest".
- nemoden 5y ago
  I did quite a bit of testing of alacritty, kitty, iTerm2, and default macos terminal. Kitty shown best results even using test that alacritty is using (tree /) vim is faster in kitty (by perception), both when ran without multiplexor and inside tmux session
- Cloudef 5y ago
  alacritty is GPU accelerated terminal. It may not be faster depending on your setup. xterm is also one of the fastest software terminals out there.
  - xyzzy_plugh 5y ago
    Yeah but their slogan isn't "fastest terminal depending on your setup."
dsissitka 5y ago
Yeah, their original benchmarks were, uh... > Benchmarks so far have just involved running find /usr on my Linux system with Alacritty, st, and urxvt, and on macOS against Terminal.app and iTerm2. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomment-272078437 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme... They decided to continue marketing it as the fastest terminal emulator anyway. > > Correct accuracy of first sentence in README #798 > > > > As documented in #289 it's not currently the fastest-- only a small number of terminals running a single task for initially benchmarked. > > nah https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/798 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/798
d_tr 5y ago
I must say I am very impressed by Kitty's number of open and closed issues on Github. And it has so many features. The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions. I have used urxvt for a long time but wanted to try something more modern out, and set Kitty up today with a nice small config. I like it a lot so far.
- saagarjha 5y ago
  > The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions. To be clear, we’re talking about Kovid here, right?
  - d_tr 5y ago
    Yes.

xyzzy_plugh 5y ago

Dubious indeed. I gave Alacritty a really good shot, as I was super excited to have a faster terminal. But my entire experience was plagued with slowdowns -- huge latencies, cat'ing huge files was very slow. I spent tons of time trying to tune things to make it good but it just never got there. Basically every other "simple" terminal I've found behaves better -- xterm, urxvt, konsole, even iTerm2. I have no idea how they can claim "fastest".

nemoden 5y ago
I did quite a bit of testing of alacritty, kitty, iTerm2, and default macos terminal. Kitty shown best results even using test that alacritty is using (tree /) vim is faster in kitty (by perception), both when ran without multiplexor and inside tmux session
Cloudef 5y ago
alacritty is GPU accelerated terminal. It may not be faster depending on your setup. xterm is also one of the fastest software terminals out there.
- xyzzy_plugh 5y ago
  Yeah but their slogan isn't "fastest terminal depending on your setup."

dsissitka 5y ago

Yeah, their original benchmarks were, uh... > Benchmarks so far have just involved running find /usr on my Linux system with Alacritty, st, and urxvt, and on macOS against Terminal.app and iTerm2. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomment-272078437 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme... They decided to continue marketing it as the fastest terminal emulator anyway. > > Correct accuracy of first sentence in README #798 > > > > As documented in #289 it's not currently the fastest-- only a small number of terminals running a single task for initially benchmarked. > > nah https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/798 https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/798

d_tr 5y ago

I must say I am very impressed by Kitty's number of open and closed issues on Github. And it has so many features. The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions. I have used urxvt for a long time but wanted to try something more modern out, and set Kitty up today with a nice small config. I like it a lot so far.

saagarjha 5y ago
> The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions. To be clear, we’re talking about Kovid here, right?
- d_tr 5y ago
  Yes.