On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:37:23PM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 23:03, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > There's been some grumbling about the performance of GNOME's new terminal > > widget, vte, here and in other places. Just wanted to let you know that > > Nalin has released 0.10.20, which goes a very long way to fixing most of > > these (with performance diagnostics by Ingo Molnar)... > > This indeed would rock, except that with 0.10.20 I had a slowdown of > approx 2 seconds over 0.10.17. On my system it was a little over 4secs > for 0.10.17 and over 6secs for 0.10.20. > > What about other people? > > Anybody else have similar findings?
vte's transparency handling is still much slower than zvt's. I don't care so much about moving windows, but opening new windows and getting cursor response is a bit of a drag. Otherwise, vte feels just fine, even compared to a resource-fluffed xterm. The above benchmark ran quickly on my machine. Ryan
