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Any similar benchmarks for MacOS? I daily drive a couple Macs and enjoy them but I can't help but notice they seem slower in the terminal than the alternatives
by bluedino 1y ago
Any similar benchmarks for MacOS?
I daily drive a couple Macs and enjoy them but I can't help but notice they seem slower in the terminal than the alternatives. Can't get any kind of discussion on /r/mac as it's just 'Apple silicon is fast!'
- matternous 1y agoThis has been posted on HN a few times and seems to show that terminal.app is your best bet for most cases if you care about latency: https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
- Aurornis 1y agoThis was a great article when it came out, but it’s very outdated. The laptop used is over 10 years old now.
- beanjuiceII 1y agoseems like outdated info
- worthless-trash 1y agoTerminal app has no truecolor support, no highres mouse support, no kitty graphics protocol, no double height character support, i'm sure there is more but I now discard it from my tests.
- thewebguyd 1y agoYou can run the tests yourself, he describes them in the blog. Used the Is It Snappy! app to measure frames. I tried the throughput test myself just now between the native macOS terminal and ghostty. Ghostty: cat /tmp/lines.txt 0.00s user 0.02s system 36% cpu 0.069 total Native mac terminal: cat /tmp/lines.txt 0.00s user 0.02s system 18% cpu 0.115 total Seems much faster than any of the OP's windows terminals tested except for MinTTY. Likewise in one unscientific test with Is It Snappy, ghostty took 8 frames to render the output from pressing the key, but I didn't repeat multiple times. So, seems faster, but I know what you are talking about, I experience it too. Something about using the terminal on macOS feels sluggish compared to alternatives. It's especially noticeable for me over SSH