iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

Re:iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 by nextos on Saturday July 28, 2018 @05:34PM (#17635185)

I actually like alacritty, but surprisingly latency is still much higher than on xterm or eshell. These are relatively slow rendering massive amounts of text (eshell much slower than xterm, and lacking many features).

However, the feature I price the most is quick responsiveness when I type. For that, I still find xterm extremely good.

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Re:iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 by twic on Saturday July 28, 2018 @07:00PM (#17635492)

I am surprised to see nobody has posted a link to Dan Luu's article about benchmarking terminal emulator latency:

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

For me, one of the takeaways from this is that time taken to cat a large file is a poor benchmark of a terminal emulator.

This article also includes a nice demonstration of yet another application of Rust - as an easily reproducible and highly reliable way to load your machine so hard it interferes with your terminal.

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Re:iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 by saagarjha on Saturday July 28, 2018 @07:11PM (#17635532)

Any low-level language can do that.

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