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I have a 655MB file with 1.5 million lines of lorem ipsum. I timed a cat in several terminal emulators. For this simple test, gnome-terminal beat xterm a little
by rascul 3y ago
I have a 655MB file with 1.5 million lines of lorem ipsum. I timed a cat in several terminal emulators. For this simple test, gnome-terminal beat xterm a little bit but wasn't anywhere close to the rest:
foot 0m9.410s
alacritty 0m16.881s
konsole 0m36.737s
gnome-terminal 1m1.096s
xterm 1m16.919s
Foot has an page that explains when and why it's fast, and also when it's not, compared to alacritty.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki/Performance https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki/Performance
- audidude 3y agoGlad this Termkit prototype work is right on track then. Generated a 655MB lorem text file and it came out at 0m8.186s.
- somat 3y agoThere can be distinctly different run speeds between bulk entry dumb terminal and opcode heavy tui behavior. https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-of-Zutty#performance-and-resource-usage https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-... And I don't really care that much but I will say that while it is a bit of a dog in the bulk display race, no one beats xterm in the keyboard latency contest.
- bitwize 3y agoEnabling fastScroll in xterm makes it competitive in the "bulk display race". It's disabled by default because who cares how fast a huge file can be displayed on stdout in real-world usage?