Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks

steinuil wrote: post #4

Has the input latency improved any? I liked alacritty, but I switched to mlterm after a while because the input latency was really bugging me.

Thanks for this feedback! We haven't heard a ton of complaints about the input latency, and comments like this help us to prioritize issues. This has been mentioned in two discussions today, so perhaps it's time to address this.

If you want notifications on any developments here, please subscribe to this GitHub issue: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673

Re: Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks

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Post by jwilm » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

Y_Y wrote: post #5

jwilm wrote: post #2

Author here; I'm happy to answer any questions!

How did you choose the terminals to benchmark against? What about xterm or gnome-terminal or powershell or whatever?

We tried to strike a balance between "commonly accepted as fast" terminal emulators and coverage of "commonly used" terminal emulators. Termite gets us libvte-based terminals (like gnome-terminal), urxvt is generally considered as one of the fastest, and Kitty is another well-regarded GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. On macOS, there's not nearly as many choices.

Ultimately, it would be great if we could benchmark against every terminal emulator, but that can become a very time-consuming task. If there's another emulator you feel should be included, we can consider it for future updates/benchmarks.

Re: Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks

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Post by steinuil » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

jwilm wrote: post #6

steinuil wrote: post #4

Has the input latency improved any? I liked alacritty, but I switched to mlterm after a while because the input latency was really bugging me.

Thanks for this feedback! We haven't heard a ton of complaints about the input latency, and comments like this help us to prioritize issues. This has been mentioned in two discussions today, so perhaps it's time to address this. If you want notifications on any developments here, please subscribe to this GitHub issue: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673

Thanks, I'll definitely be looking forward to any improvements on that!

Re: Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks

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Post by ake1 » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

jwilm wrote: post #7

Y_Y wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you choose the terminals to benchmark against? What about xterm or gnome-terminal or powershell or whatever?

We tried to strike a balance between "commonly accepted as fast" terminal emulators and coverage of "commonly used" terminal emulators. Termite gets us libvte-based terminals (like gnome-terminal), urxvt is generally considered as one of the fastest, and Kitty is another well-regarded GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. On macOS, there's not nearly as many choices. Ultimately, it would be great if we could benchmark a…

i would imagine konsole could be of interest as it's the default in KDE and not using libvte.

Re: Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks

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Post by pcwalton » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

Regarding tabs, macOS has native tab support more or less built-in to the windowing system—you can see this in action if you create a document-based app in Xcode—but your app has to be structured in such as a way as to opt into it. Have you considered opting into this or would you consider it contrary to the project goals?