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by alyandon 3916 days ago
In case anyone is really interested in seeing some actual numbers. On my system, using the default system Monospace 11 font:

ls -lR / in urxvt terminal window - 16 s

vs

ls -lR / in gnome-terminal window - 3m17s

ls was run several times to make sure all information was cached. Same font, same window size, etc.