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Anyone else notice that typing directly on the tty is much faster than in a terminal emulator in X11?
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Alacritty has kind of a lot of input latency, it's noticeably worse than wsltty and the default WSL terminal -- at least back when I checked it a year ago. I think some work has been done to improve it, but at this point IMO if you're on Windows then wsltty is as good as it gets for a general purpose terminal. If you're on Linux, xterm is top notch.
I don't know, I've got two panes here opened next to each other (tiled/xmonad) with xterm and alacritty, and I've been typing in those for the last 5min, and I really can't tell the difference (my monitor has 5ms latency).
You typically need special hardware to measure it, or find review sites that go out of their way to cover it.
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Another vote for low-latency here. It’s tempting to create a YouTube channel dedicated to showing input latencies for common tasks. Question is: how do you make sure no one is cheating?
Use a measurement device and show it in the video. Like the 1000fps camera used in https://danluu.com/input-lag/
There's definitely a way out by requiring that the tests are reproducible in a 'lab', but that throws out results from machines the lab doesn't have access to