[sseneca]

Yeah, this was my take away as well. Also, iirc their claims of Alacritty being the "fastest" are dubious at best.

I used Kitty for a while instead, which is very similar. More recently I've been trying out Foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

[xyzzy_plugh]

Dubious indeed. I gave Alacritty a really good shot, as I was super excited to have a faster terminal. But my entire experience was plagued with slowdowns -- huge latencies, cat'ing huge files was very slow. I spent tons of time trying to tune things to make it good but it just never got there.

Basically every other "simple" terminal I've found behaves better -- xterm, urxvt, konsole, even iTerm2.

I have no idea how they can claim "fastest".

[nemoden]

I did quite a bit of testing of alacritty, kitty, iTerm2, and default macos terminal. Kitty shown best results even using test that alacritty is using (tree /) vim is faster in kitty (by perception), both when ran without multiplexor and inside tmux session

[Cloudef]

alacritty is GPU accelerated terminal. It may not be faster depending on your setup. xterm is also one of the fastest software terminals out there.

[xyzzy_plugh]

Yeah but their slogan isn't "fastest terminal depending on your setup."

[dsissitka]

Yeah, their original benchmarks were, uh...

> Benchmarks so far have just involved running find /usr on my Linux system with Alacritty, st, and urxvt, and on macOS against Terminal.app and iTerm2.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...

They decided to continue marketing it as the fastest terminal emulator anyway.

> > Correct accuracy of first sentence in README #798

> >

> > As documented in #289 it's not currently the fastest-- only a small number of terminals running a single task for initially benchmarked.

>

> nah

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/798

[d_tr]

I must say I am very impressed by Kitty's number of open and closed issues on Github. And it has so many features. The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions. I have used urxvt for a long time but wanted to try something more modern out, and set Kitty up today with a nice small config. I like it a lot so far.

[saagarjha]

> The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions.

To be clear, we’re talking about Kovid here, right?

[d_tr]

Yes.