Re: gnome-terminal awfully slow. :-(

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Cédric Marcone wrote:

> I did the same test here :
>
> cd /usr/share
> time ls -lR
>
> gnome-terminal 2.2.1 : 
> real    0m13.687s
> user    0m1.340s
> sys     0m0.420s
>
> xterm :
> real    0m7.399s
> user    0m1.390s
> sys     0m0.390s
>
> -> Only 1.8 times slower, much less than you reported !
> And I think it's a very little performance penalty, considering that
> text is now fully antialiased !
>  
If you want to make the comparison more fair, there are a few xterm 
options you can set.  Try running it like:
   xterm -u8 -fa fontname -fs pointsize

This will run xterm in utf-8 mode and use Xft to draw text.  Using the 
same font name and point size you use in gnome-terminal to get rid of 
another variable.

James.

--
Email: james daa com au
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/