Author selects a different success benchmark, gets different results. Casey's demonstration is specific to the claim that terminal text rendering, by itself, i

Author selects a different success benchmark, gets different results. Casey's demonstration is specific to the claim that terminal text rendering, by itself, is "worthy of a PhD thesis", as written by a Microsoft employee. He makes no claim to Refterm being an actual terminal emulator, and he repeatedly says that it is not optimized, by which he means that he has never profiled it; it reuses Windows library code, implements a simple LRU glyph cache, and has an option to bypass conio and present a buffer passed directly through the kernel. The code is otherwise just a first pass at achieving the desired features, but it succeeds in demonstrating that a high-bandwidth terminal emulator is possible if pursued with any effort.