Oh god yes. xvt, xterm, etc back in the 1990s were far faster than some of the more modern X terminal emulators I've used (although I'm probably thinking of ones 5-10 years old, to be honest). Mainly because the old ones were just blitting bitmap characters into the framebuffer (and scrolling by just copying a whole chunk of image in one go), while more modern ones were doing antialiasing and transparency effects and all sorts of stuff. If you cat'ed a long file in xvt the text would seem to *blur* it would whizz past so fast, while the newer terminal emulators could only manage about 10fps!

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2023-09-23 15:12:55

#Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Terminals-Could-Be-Faster

Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster

Prominent GNOME developer Christian Hergert announced he created a new terminal emulator that is twice as fast as the closest GPU-based renderer he's found yet so far on Linux, which was Alacritty

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