modern terminals are slow...like really slow

Опубликовано: 22 Март 2026
на канале: Tom
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READ THIS FIRST!!!!!
I am aware that these terminals that I mentioned, have security and vulnerability patches. And that may cause slowdowns, but still. And do not bring up GPU accelerated terminals like Alacritty.

tinterm - https://github.com/BeanGreen247/tinterm
tinshell - https://github.com/BeanGreen247/tinshell

Test PC specs (taken from neofetch)
beangreen247@UbuntuDev
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS x86_64
Host: IMB-G41A V1.0
Kernel: 5.8.0-63-generic
Packages: 1818 (dpkg), 6 (snap)
WM: Openbox
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 (2) @ 2.936GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
Memory: 1986MiB

Screenshot after recording results
https://ibb.co/QDyq2nS

after video rerun is about 40% faster in my terminal than in xfce4-terminal

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