[pfranz]

I've noticed terminal rendering performance issues when dumping a lot of text. If that's part of your job, it's important to you. For me it seems to come up once every few years and I've poked around at alternatives.

I've also heard about performance issues with high res, large terminals. It's a lot of pixels to throw at the screen and I'm sure most terminal emulators were written with much smaller screens in mind.