> energy efficiency I care about energy efficiency deeply. But in a terminal? You can't be serious. Each terminal is in the end tied to a single person so the

> energy efficiency I care about energy efficiency deeply. But in a terminal? You can't be serious. Each terminal is in the end tied to a single person so there is no runaway scaling of instances possible. Your win in energy consumption is in the single digit watt-hours per person. One could probably compare the energy savings coming from the terminal rendering to the extra energy consumed by the developer trying to improve performance and it might turn out to be a wash. As for the perception of speed by people using the terminal. I too am very puzzled how this is different from audiophile movement where people claim to perceive minuscule differences in THD whatever metric they focus on today. It might be that I've been working over dial-up sessions and intercontinental ssh sessions and the perception of slow starts to creep in when RTT gets to 100ms range. Which is probably orders of magnitude worse and more limiting than the difference between kitty and alacritty.