Re: Speed improvement of gnome-terminal

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 15:47, Owen Taylor wrote:
> One thing you can think about is - what is the correct behavior when
> catting a large text file to a terminal - shouldn't it just show the
> last page instantly?

The data doesn't arrive instantly however. The simple model is to handle
refreshes under full load in terms of a desired "frames per second"

gnome-terminal is also noticably faster with antialiasing off - as you'd
expect. That one seems to have a lot to do with poor render acceleration
in Xorg/XFree