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Finally got gnome-terminal to run on my system

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Apparently it needed some kind of GTK desktop portal or the other
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Interesting that its numbers are basically the same as alacritty's. Lot
better than I remember, I guess the recent libvte performance work was
good.
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Terminal ASCII Unicode CSI Images Average Terminal ASCII Unicode CSI Images Average
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kitty 0.33 117.7 104.0 59.3 249.7 132.68 kitty 0.33 117.7 104.0 59.3 249.7 132.68
gnometerm 3.50.1 33.4 55.0 16.1 142.8 61.83
alacritty 0.13.1 43.1 46.5 32.5 94.1 54.05 alacritty 0.13.1 43.1 46.5 32.5 94.1 54.05
wezterm 20230712 16.4 26.0 11.1 140.5 48.5 wezterm 20230712 16.4 26.0 11.1 140.5 48.5
xterm 389 47.7 18.3 0.6 56.3 30.72 xterm 389 47.7 18.3 0.6 56.3 30.72
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.. note:: .. note::
By default, the benchmark kitten suppresses actual rendering, to better focus By default, the benchmark kitten suppresses actual rendering, to better
on parser speed, you can pass it the ``--render`` flag to not suppress focus on parser speed, you can pass it the ``--render`` flag to not suppress
rendering. However, modern terminals typically render asynchronously, rendering. However, modern terminals typically render asynchronously,
therefore the numbers are not really useful for comparison. However, even therefore the numbers are not really useful for comparison, as it is just a
with rendering enabled kitty is still much faster than all the rest. For game about how much input to *batch* before rendering the next frame.
brevity those numbers are not included. However, even with rendering enabled kitty is still faster than all the
rest. For brevity those numbers are not included.
.. note:: .. note::
gnome-terminal is left out as I could not get it to start on my system and foot, iterm2 and Terminal.app are left out as they do not run under X11.
foot is left out as it does not run under X11. Alacritty+tmux is included Alacritty+tmux is included just to show the effect of putting a terminal
just to show the effect of putting a terminal multiplexer into the mix multiplexer into the mix (halving throughput) and because alacritty isnt
(halving throughput) and because alacritty isnt really comparable to any of remotely comparable to any of the other terminals feature wise without tmux.
the other terminals feature wise without tmux.
.. note:: .. note::
konsole and xterm dont support the `Synchronized update konsole, gnome-terminal and xterm do not support the `Synchronized update
<https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/synchronized-updates-spec>`__ <https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/synchronized-updates-spec>`__
escape code used to suppress rendering, if and when they gain support for it escape code used to suppress rendering, if and when they gain support for it
their numbers are likely to improve by ``20 - 30%``. their numbers are likely to improve by ``20 - 50%``, depending on how well they
implement it.
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