Re: Speed improvement of gnome-terminal

[Soeren Sonnenburg <desktop-devel-ml nn7 de>]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:55:49 +0000, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:

> Anybody tried to take a look at the xterminal (xfce terminal emulator)
> that will be shipped with xfce 4.2? It's gtk2-based (pango, aa and
> such) and it's fairly faster (startup time) than gnome-terminal on my
> machine, an Athlon XP 1700+, 512 RAM DDR, debian unstable, gnome 2.8.
> 
> but when I tried the (very crude, don't blame me) benchmark 
> 
> cat /var/log/messages, 2.3 Mb
> 
> with xterminal (0.1.9), gnome-terminal (2.7.3) and aterm, I got the
> following results
> 
> xterminal: ~ 11 s, takes 100% CPU time
> gnome-terminal: ~ 12 s, takes 100% CPU time 
> aterm: ~ 2 s, takes ~ 80% CPU time

well if you don't need unicode/AA fonts I would recommend
multi-gnome-terminal which is at least as fast as aterm.

Soeren