Yeah, their original benchmarks were, uh...

> Benchmarks so far have just involved running find /usr on my Linux system with Alacritty, st, and urxvt, and on macOS against Terminal.app and iTerm2.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...

They decided to continue marketing it as the fastest terminal emulator anyway.

> > Correct accuracy of first sentence in README #798

> >

> > As documented in #289 it's not currently the fastest-- only a small number of terminals running a single task for initially benchmarked.

>

> nah

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/798