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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by shockone on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:46AM (#15302118)
Performance is definitely worse than in iTerm or gnome-terminal, but it's improved a lot in recent Upterm versions, and we plan to improve it further. I'd say it's good enough, but you can try yourself.

Recently there was this terminal performance test https://danluu.com/term-latency/

The author says that the most important things are typing delay and how quickly you can Ctrl+C a command, not how much text it prints per second. Upterm is good at both.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by etatoby on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:09AM (#15303541)
> Performance is definitely worse than in iTerm or gnome-terminal

Considering I dropped those because I consider them slow and bloated, good luck with this Electron monstrosity.

You can have my RXVT when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by creshal on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:59AM (#15302855)
> Performance is definitely worse than in iTerm or gnome-terminal

I dropped those because they're magnitudes slower than urxvt. You managed to make a terminal emulator that's even worse?

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by phren0logy on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:04AM (#15302898)
Hey, I bet nobody will force you to use it or help develop it.

Not every tool fits everyone’s needs. Some tools might only be useful to a few people.

No need to be rude about it.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by Diti on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:04AM (#15302901)
I don’t mean to spark a controversy, but that’s what happens when you use Electron.
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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by trapperkeeper74 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:41AM (#15303244)
LOL. I dropped Atom back to Vim the same reason.. electron apps are just too slow and memory-hogging compared to native apps.
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