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 == Performance
 
-The main goals for kitty performance are user perceived latency and
-"smoothness" while scrolling. kitty tries hard to optimize these. To that end
-it keeps a cache of each rendered glyph in video RAM so that font rendering is
-not a bottleneck.  Interaction with child programs takes place in a separate
+The main goals for kitty performance are user perceived latency while typing
+and "smoothness" while scrolling. kitty tries hard to optimize these. To that
+end it keeps a cache of each rendered glyph in video RAM so that font rendering
+is not a bottleneck.  Interaction with child programs takes place in a separate
 thread from rendering, to improve smoothness.
 
 You can generate detailed per-function performance data using