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I've never quite understood why terminal emulators nowadays have GPU acceleration. They've not been slow for a long time. What am I missing?
by Sophira 8mo ago
I've never quite understood why terminal emulators nowadays have GPU acceleration. They've not been slow for a long time. What am I missing?
- hoherd 8mo agoIf you compare them side by side, you actually can see how slow some of them are. The way I compare is to open them all up tiled on my display joined to the same tmux session, then try doing heavy redraw operations, like maybe cmatrix. You can clearly see how some of them are quick at redrawing, and some are not. Some people do not care about the difference, but it is definitely there. See also https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/
- cactusplant7374 8mo agoI've commented on this before. Sign of the times. People like anything related to GPUs. In my personal coding projects I've even been tempted to ask the agent: "What features can I add that use the GPU?"