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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by tpolzer on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:37AM (#17924534)
Usually, offloading to the GPU will get you higher throughout but also higher latency. Although of course this assumes a sane software renderer, X11 API calls will take forever.
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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by dancek on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:55AM (#17925045)
Really? It's counterintuitive considering the GPU draws the screen anyway. Is it because the shader pipeline has some inherent latency that a software renderer doesn't?
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