Hi, One thing I've noticed which slows down st massively is the font declarations in config.def.h. st attempts to find the set of all fonts which match the given pattern, which is pretty damn slow. It really ought to default to a specific font, like dwm does with terminus, and if that fails fall back to "fixed". On my Debian machine that cuts the load time by an order of magnitude.
The default settings are, quite simply, unusable. Besides that, st is quite nice. I'm using it as my main terminal emulator now, so I'll probably help patch it at some point. Thanks, cls
