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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by raverbashing on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:20AM (#29745783)
Kitty has more features and is easier to use than Alacritty IMHO

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by manish_gill on Friday December 31, 2021 @03:04AM (#29745949)
As a recent convert from Alacritty to Kitty, I can confirm this. Kitty blew Alacritty out of the water in the first 10 mins of my experience with it.

Like holy crap, it's a very well written and well thought out piece of software. And it's fast. I'm all about the Rust hype, but Kitty reduced latency drastically.

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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by akho on Friday December 31, 2021 @03:57AM (#29746173)
Still slower than xterm. And I have yet to see a feature I need that's not in (famously bloated) xterm, and which Alacritty or Kitty provide.
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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by petepete on Friday December 31, 2021 @08:20AM (#29747728)
By what measure is it slower?

I don't really notice any difference in doing day-to-day stuff, but I tried out tree across my entire ~/projects dir and got the following results:

XTERM:

28032 directories, 196844 files tree projects 0.65s user 1.19s system 56% cpu 3.229 total

KITTY:

28032 directories, 196844 files tree projects 0.62s user 0.75s system 55% cpu 2.475 total

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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by akho on Saturday January 01, 2022 @03:30PM (#29762376)
Latency and startup time are largest contributors to my feeling. I don’t have a measurement, and both are difficult to measure.
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