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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by glandium on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:25PM (#13340874)
Moreover, tmux does its own output parsing, so when you do your `cat 1gb_file.txt` inside tmux inside a terminal, you have two layers of output parsing happening. I can't see how that doesn't impact the performance that is claimed for Alacritty. But perhaps tmux is really fast.

I wouldn't trust a third party application to be part of the performance experience I'm claiming for my own application, though.

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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by therein on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:41AM (#13342558)
Couldn't you say that about SSH? If your application is taking forever reading from the stdout buffer, your application will block when it is trying to write to stdout with say, printf, or fprintf.
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