WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
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#3Wezterm seems to have its own take on multiplexing built-in. And it supports terminal graphics (But not both at the same time for the moment).
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#4> WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
This is great. I’ve been looking for a GPU-accelerated terminal written in Rust and haven’t been able to find one. Glad to see someone finally wrote one.
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#5> WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust This is great. I’ve been looking for a GPU-accelerated terminal written in Rust and haven’t been able to find one. Glad to see someone finally wrote one.
Alacritty?
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#6Serious question: how much does it benefit to accelerate terminal on GPU? Is it really worth the effort?
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#7This is an honest question. What is the advantage of GPU acceleration for a terminal emulator?
I don’t do much low level graphics stuff, but a terminal seems fairly simple graphically, you are just drawing glyphs at xy cords. Would love it if someone had a good explanation.
Obviously there are some terminal applications that could be redrawing very quickly, but that seems like a solved problem.
Re: WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
#8This is an honest question. What is the advantage of GPU acceleration for a terminal emulator? I don’t do much low level graphics stuff, but a terminal seems fairly simple graphically, you are just drawing glyphs at xy cords. Would love it if someone had a good explanation. Obviously there are some terminal applications that could be redrawing very quickly, but that seems like a solved problem.
Is it more complicated than wanting to update the display as often as its fresh frequency? Faster screen updates, lower CPU & power usage.
You might not notice the difference until you accidentally unleash a lot of output at once - then you'll see the difference. Some terminals start to update infrequently to save themselves, some hang completely while burning the CPU.
Psychologically I feel more in control of my computer, more confident to try things out if I can see my typing updating instantly than 10s or 100s of milliseconds later.
Re: WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
#9> WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust This is great. I’ve been looking for a GPU-accelerated terminal written in Rust and haven’t been able to find one. Glad to see someone finally wrote one.
Alacritty?
I think that was humor, because there seem to be at least three GPU-accelerated terminal emulators written in Rust.
Re: WezTerm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
#10This is an honest question. What is the advantage of GPU acceleration for a terminal emulator? I don’t do much low level graphics stuff, but a terminal seems fairly simple graphically, you are just drawing glyphs at xy cords. Would love it if someone had a good explanation. Obviously there are some terminal applications that could be redrawing very quickly, but that seems like a solved problem.
Well since GPU acceleration minimizes latency (because of zero-copy, all character textures are resident in video memory), that is a boon to perceived responsiveness. IMO that is the single most important feature in a terminal, next to correctness. It’s like typing on an old serial terminal.