Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

Re:Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by einpoklum on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @08:12AM (#22683806)

Wow, those graphs are mind-blowing!

But it sounds like what should really be written is a fast, hardware-backed, low-latency but limited-feature graphics library.

Then have your terminal use that. I still say that direct awareness of the hardware is _way_ too much coupling.

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Re:Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by jstimpfle on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @05:20PM (#22688630)

OpenGL is actually pretty high-level. I don't know how much detail of the hardware it lets you get - probably mostly through hardware-specific extensions. The most basic usage is really hardware oblivious. There are many even more high-level toolkits on top of that, such as Qt. But if you need some flexibility and performance, using OpenGL is probably your best bet.

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Re:Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator by camgunz on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:21PM (#22690054)

Yeah, plus hardware accelerated font rendering isn't trivial.

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