[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:32:04PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
> >That's a deeply silly test. Of *course* konsole has a higher
> >initialization overhead than rxvt: it's got DCOP registration and who
> >knows what else to do
> 
> But that's the point -- I don't want it to do any of those things.
> I just want a terminal. Hence I use rxvt rather than konsole.

The more interesting stats are post startup. In general use - in particular
when scrolling text up the terminal - gnome-terminal (and basically
every other terminal emulator, konsole, rxvt) are significantly
slower than plain old XTerm. Curious as to the reasons, I ran OProfile
against both XTerm and Gnome Terminal, and discovered that by far the
largest bottleneck was in the client side font rendering library. I
guess its just the price you pay for anti-aliased fonts - at least
until they're nicely integrated in the X server itself. The Xt library
may be crude, but its really rather efficient and for a terminal, thats
what matter most for me.

Dan.
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