On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:30:09PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > So the claimed advantage is that it's super fast, but actually it uses way > more cpu than probably any other terminal emulator in the tree except > cool-retro-term?
Yes, it is blazing fast. matthieu's test of 'cat /etc/termcap' completes in under 0.1s while xterm uses 0.2-0.3s. It does feel way snappier than xterm in general. It looks like I made CPU use worse by about a factor of 2 due to using vm.malloc_conf=CFJ. Still, ~5% is way more than it should need. Another advantage is that contrary to xterm it is trivial to configure thanks to a self-documenting .yml config file. > Is this useful enough to be worth adding so much time to a bulk build? I doubt it. > It will likely need to be amd64-only. Probably. Testing on other archs would need more time than I currently have.
