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Re: scroll speed - emacs vs. xterm vs. rxvt

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From: Alexander Sirotkin
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:40

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Alexander Sirotkin wrote:
> I've noticed that compilation time greatly depends
> on a terminal you run it in, at least for one particular
> project which prints lots of information during build
> process. When I redirect it to a file it speeds the
> compilation time by 30% and when it's run in a terminal
> (konsole or gnome-terminal) top shows that X+terminal
> consumes about 20% CPU load.
> 
> I decided to compare different terminals in terms of
> scroll speed, and here is what I found :
> 
> rxvt : 1
> xterm : 2.4
> konsole : 6
> gnome-terminal : 11
> emacs : 42
> 
> Meaning that for instance rxvt is 42 times faster than emacs.
> 
> Well... actually I don't know what to add, these results look
> pretty bad to me. It means that I will never compile in emacs
> window and should abandon all terminals except for rxvt.
> 

Out of curiosity I checked xemacs and... wow, it was unbelievably fast.
Even faster than rxvt... I guess I will switch back to xemacs, I
considered it since I saw the buffers tab :)

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From: Alexander Sirotkin <demiurg@ti.com>
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