I remember minimizing the terminal window to make a script run faster. Taking the text rendering out of the execution path actually had a substantial speedup fo

I remember minimizing the terminal window to make a script run faster. Taking the text rendering out of the execution path actually had a substantial speedup for long running scripts in some cases. It was one of those things you sort of picked up from other people along the way and assumed everyone knew. Nowadays I don't know if the difference is noticeable enough to be common knowledge though.