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by samatman 1806 days ago
Not true!

If a terminal doesn't paint on a per-frame basis, then dumping reams of text to that terminal will slow the program to the speed of printing, this can easily be a 100x slowdown versus only updating the view when the monitor wants more pixels.

Most of them don't do this, so the ones that do are within their rights to advertise it as a feature.