On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <suckl...@benizi.com> wrote: > rxvt-unicode uses the wonderful optimization of not really caring whether > everything gets displayed. As a test, simulate some command that produces > output that can't actually be read -- like from a noisy makefile, the > non-error output of TeX, or an accidental `find`: > > find / | sed 10000q > ~/find10000 > time cat ~/find10000 > > uxterm takes 2.6 seconds to display text I can't possibly read. > urxvt finishes instantly, only taking 0.04 seconds of wall time. > st takes 50.1 seconds.
st does the same thing now: cat ~/find10000 0.00s user 0.03s system 37% cpu 0.089 total > If you're on the 'xft' branch, you'll need a different format, e.g.: > > #define XFT_FONT "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-13" Curiously, the xft branch doesn't become unresponsive in the tmux scrolling case.
