Linux Terminal Emulators Have the Potential of Being Much Faster

1. refterm

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   Reference monospace terminal renderer

   

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3. Windows Terminal

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   The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

   

   I feel like you are really under-selling that entire drama. It started with Casey pointing out some slow terminal behavior[0], to which he receive unreasonable flack, including this choice quote,

   >I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

   Casey then spent a weekend and produced a couple thousand line terminal emulator which seemed feature complete(? probably missing some bells and whistles), but blew away Windows performance.

   A year later, Microsoft released a patch, roughly incorporating some of Casey's suggestions, and did not credit him for anything[1].

   [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

4. vte

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   Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte (by GNOME)

   

   Meanwhile, all GNOME-based terminals are still capped at 40fps:

   https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10770

5. zutty

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   Discontinued X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders

   I favor kitty[0] and zutty[1].

   Gnome terminal / libvte is and has always been slow, and alacritty might have good throughput, but sadly is high latency.

   0. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

   1. https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

6. kitty

   5 316 27,793 9.9 Python

   Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

   

   I favor kitty[0] and zutty[1].

   Gnome terminal / libvte is and has always been slow, and alacritty might have good throughput, but sadly is high latency.

   0. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

   1. https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

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