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Article #215Re: scroll speed - emacs vs. xterm vs. rxvt
From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:04
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:04
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Alexander Sirotkin <demiurg@ti.com> writes: > 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. Those numbers puzzle me. I once did some trivial tests sending huge amounts of text to various terminals. In my tests gnome-termnal outperformed xterm by about five times. I didn't test emacs. -- M�ns Rullg�rd mru@users.sf.net
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