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Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by halz on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:01AM (#27075958)
There is at lease one open issue¹ with the clipboard crate that causes a high amount of wakeups (under Wayland at least). Whatmore, the wakeups scale with the number of terminals open. The project is ruthless about performance[latency] regressions, but not so much about performance[energy] overhead.

[¹https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3108]

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Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by Narishma on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:23AM (#27076201)
They seem to care more about throughput than latency.
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Re:Use Alacritty instead of Termite by jorams on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:27PM (#27077667)
Yes, which seems very very weird to me. When it launched they immediately marketed it as super fast, but just typing into it had noticeable latency. Throughput is great if a command is producing massive amounts of output, but it's not like you're going to read at that speed. I can usually pipe into less instead.

I hope latency has improved to be much better. Haven't tried it in a few years.

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