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by sanjeetsuhag 2984 days ago
Rust Evangelism Strike Force to the rescue.
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I laughed real hard at this phrasing: > Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence.

Bold.

Depends what you mean by "fast". It seems to have the highest stdout throughput, but that is not necessarily the most important metric: https://danluu.com/term-latency/
Especially true when the methodology to test performance was just `find /usr` [1], and comparing it with a just a few alternatives. I'm sure they have a better and more thorough benchmark these days, but that was pretty funny.

[1] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/289