VS Code already shows why Google would do this. They moved the Terminal from DOM nodes to canvas and got somewhere like a 20x render improvement (after already

VS Code already shows why Google would do this. They moved the Terminal from DOM nodes to canvas and got somewhere like a 20x render improvement (after already having spent a lot of time optimizing the DOM implementation). The previous jank all but went away too. EDIT: added their blog article https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-renderer https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-rend...