Linux Terminal Emulators Have the Potential of Being Much Faster

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  • refterm

    Reference monospace terminal renderer

  • InfluxDB

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  • Windows Terminal

    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

  • vte

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

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

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

  • zutty

    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/

  • kitty

    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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