st, compiling from source and latency

Posted Mar 31, 2018 1:31 UTC (Sat) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354)
In reply to: A look at terminal emulators, part 1 by karkhaz
Parent article: A look at terminal emulators, part 1

Yeah, I limited myself to actual upstream software. I actually cheated a little here since the Debian package of st actually ships with the scrollback patch, if I understand this correctly. So in a way, st actually *has* scrollbacks in Debian, but it's somewhat of an exception. Interestingly, it seems to be one of the things that's holding back the package too...

And yes, compiling all of those from source would be better, but considering there are 10 different programs listed here, tested on two different operating systems, it was considered too time-consuming to go that far in the tests.

As for performance, you might like to know that latency is one of the core criteria i will look into, so stay tuned! :)

st, compiling from source and latency

Posted Mar 31, 2018 17:02 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

> And yes, compiling all of those from source would be better,

Not really. It is more useful to test the software users actually run.
Very few bother to build their terminal emulator from source.