alt Hacker NewsI've never quite understood why terminal emulators nowadays have GPU acceleration. They've not been slow for a long time. What am I missing?
I've never quite understood why terminal emulators nowadays have GPU acceleration. They've not been slow for a long time. What am I missing?
If you compare them side by side, you actually can see how slow some of them are. The way I compare is to open them all up tiled on my display joined to the same tmux session, then try doing heavy redraw operations, like maybe cmatrix. You can clearly see how some of them are quick at redrawing, and some are not.
Some people do not care about the difference, but it is definitely there.
See also https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/