Re:Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators
by 0x457 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @03:00PM
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Yes, it helps there, but I'm talking about frame rate constantly jumping around. I'm not talking about 16.6 vs 16.7 or even 16.9, I'm talking about 16.6 vs 40/60/90 and so on. VRR isn't going to fix it at all:
I want the same consistency for terminal input delay. Suckless terminal, for example, has higher latency, but P99 is much closer to avg than Alacritty and urxvt. While on the subject of terminals: st will stay mostly the same when there is additional load present, while all GPU-based terminals will start slipping if I'm doing something that involves GPU (discord voice call, screen sharing/recording, spotify).
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^^ I don't want this.
Yeah, the average is 60 and VRR will prevent tearing and jitter, but won't magically solve the issue I'm referring to. What I want is this:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/fra...
I want the same consistency for terminal input delay. Suckless terminal, for example, has higher latency, but P99 is much closer to avg than Alacritty and urxvt. While on the subject of terminals: st will stay mostly the same when there is additional load present, while all GPU-based terminals will start slipping if I'm doing something that involves GPU (discord voice call, screen sharing/recording, spotify).