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A comment on Ghostty 1.0.

Re:Ghostty 1.0 by lopkeny12ko on Friday December 27, 2024 @04:09PM (#42526057)
To be honest, I don't "get" ghostty. I am not really seeing how this is so much better than the GNOME terminal that ships with my Linux distro.

A lot of people are claiming that ghostty is "faster." I watched the lightning talk where the author claims that catting files and binaries is faster.

I tried this against ghostty itself after building with zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast, using: time cat ghostty.

In GNOME terminal, it took 3.340s. In ghostty, it took 16.947s. I must be doing something wrong?

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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by matrixhelix on Friday December 27, 2024 @07:50PM (#42527541)
The cool part is that you don’t have to “get” Ghostty, you can continue using whatever you prefer
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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by infensus on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:47AM (#42558675)
Are there any use cases for running `cat` on a binary without at least piping it somewhere? The output will be mostly garbage
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