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Personally, IDGAF about latency. I'm used to typing things into servers that are two crossings of a continent away (one for corp VPN entry, and then another on
by drewg123 3y ago
Personally, IDGAF about latency. I'm used to typing things into servers that are two crossings of a continent away (one for corp VPN entry, and then another one to get to a server 50 away via the cross-country VPN hop).
What gets me is the performance when a terminal command spews an unexpectedly large amount of output and/or I forget to postpend less. Eg, the latency between ^C being entered and having an impact. This can be 10s of seconds on slower terminals like xterm and this is what finally got me to switch away from xterm to one of these new-fangled terminals like the one from lxde.
- enriquto 3y agoVery interesting! Do you have a specific test to measure this performance in different terminals?
- drewg123 3y agoI just made a big file (something like cat /usr/share/dict/words >> /tmp/zot a few times) and then just cat'ed that at the commandline
- enriquto 3y agoI cannot reproduce this with xterm(372). I build a file that needs 20 seconds to print whole, but I can stop it with ^C instantaneously anytime I try.