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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by vanviegen on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:44PM (#17927542)
To be fair, the text mode rendering you're using as a benchmark, is implemented in hardware as well.
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Re:Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator by cmsj on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:26PM (#17929270)
Indeed, a more fair comparison is to compare GNOME Terminal to xterm. You should see that xterm is way faster, but it's also uglier and has far fewer features. Overhead isn't always about worthless bloat.
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