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A prominent blog post benchmarking latency of various terminals. https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/ TL;DR; terminal.app on macO
by tiffanyh 3y ago
A prominent blog post benchmarking latency of various terminals.
https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
TL;DR; terminal.app on macOS is typically the fastest.
- idoubtit 3y agoYour benchmark is more than 6 years old, on a 2014 Macbook, with a strange choice of terminals. LWN's article on the subject is almost as old, but with a better comparison: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ (2018) For a recent take, though by one of the competitors, see https://tomscii.sig7.se/2021/01/Typing-latency-of-Zutty https://tomscii.sig7.se/2021/01/Typing-latency-of-Zutty > TL;DR; terminal.app on macOS is typically the fastest. Even on macOS, that's probably not true, at least nowadays. See https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/ (2022)
- 4death4 3y agoIt says Terminal.app follows closely behind the fastest. This level of discussion around “fast” terminals is funny to me. I’ve always used Terminal.app and never had a single problem. It turns out the default option is likely the best in this case.