This test *must* depend on your actual hardware, so the value given has to be taken with a grain of salt and is probably a lower bound. On my IBM ThinkPad T23, the "gnome-terminal" benchmark takes more than a 1/2 a minute! Of course, as indicated for 25x80 and fixed font.
> bench this? - gnome terminal performance: it is stated 1 second, > while I'm not > able to go under 6.5..
