Matthias Langer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Least:
>>> ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support.
>> [snip]
>>
>> Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has
>> beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program
>> that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program
>> gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago.
>>
>> Matthias
>
> Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached)
> (higher is better):
>
> eterm: ~ 14 000 l/s
> xterm: ~ 8 500 l/s
> gnome-terminal: ~ 3 500 l/s
> frame-buffer: ~ 40 l/s
Om my (slow?) laptop I get:
frame-buffer: 34 l/s
rxvt-unicode: 12 000 l/s
xterm: 4500 l/s
Konsole: 6666 l/s
gnome-terminal: 6666 l/s
^^^
_not_ faked :)
And another thing I love about rxvt(-unicode) is that if you change the
width of the terminal the text rewraps ie: it follows the window size.
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