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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by dharmab on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:41PM (#25738673)
Specifically, kitty uses VRAM as a font rendering cache: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance.html
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Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by chrisseaton on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:22PM (#25739506)
Right... but doesn't every serious desktop GUI framework already do that? They aren't drawing every glyph every time from the original curves, and where else would they store video data than... the video RAM.
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