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Re:Terminal and shell performance by wmf on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:09PM (#14799209)
OTOH Alacritty can supposedly redraw the entire terminal in 2 ms, so perhaps those tradeoffs have changed over the last few decades.
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Re:Terminal and shell performance by steveklabnik on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:37PM (#14799406)
An interesting side effect of Alacritty's choices:

> alacritty and terminal.app are fast enough that they’re actually limited by the speed of tmux.

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Re:Terminal and shell performance by jwilm on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:50PM (#14799502)
FWIW, We're working on adding native support for scrolling. Someone has actually made an attempt at it recently: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/pull/657

Initial testing has shown it not to (noticeably) impact perf in our highly unscientific benchmarks.

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Re:Terminal and shell performance by steveklabnik on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:10PM (#14799657)
Ah great!

I'm a native Windows user these days, so I can't use it quite yet, and as such, have fallen behind the time on news.

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Re:Terminal and shell performance by buster on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:23PM (#14807573)
That's awesome! No scrolling is what prevents me from using alacritty. Hope this gets merged!
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