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Regarding performance

Regarding performance

Posted Mar 31, 2018 20:07 UTC (Sat) by Hector (guest, #123399)
Parent article: A look at terminal emulators, part 1

Something to keep in mind when measuring performance: My urxvt became 10x faster after switching from 

URxvt*font : xft:something
to 
URxvt*font : -xos4-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
.

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Regarding performance

Posted Mar 31, 2018 21:47 UTC (Sat) by rohieb (subscriber, #115261) [Link]

I can confirm this, the xft backend is miles slower than using XOrg's pixel fonts.


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