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So it benefits only from the rare case where my whole terminal is full of text? Like "cat"ing a binary file? Still not worth it it me, I try to keep my gpu usa

• vidarh 5y ago
  Yeah, unless you want shaders, that's pretty much it. The irony is that most of the GPU based terminals takes little to no advantage of doing anything fancy with shaders which would be the main other thing they can offer. But even there CPU based rendering can be fast enough for most things. E.g. I hacked xst to add outlines by just crudely rendering things three times, and that was more than fast enough still on CPU only. The current glow I add with shaders on Kitty would be hard to do fast enough, but a close approximation with cached glyphs would not be hard.