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by dankamongmen 1769 days ago
as for performance, i have numbers from the end of 2019 on my wiki: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Notcurses#Te...

in general, kitty and alacritty are both pretty damn fast. xterm lags behind, and really lags behind if you're using truetype fonts. wezterm wasn't included in these samples; my general impression is that it's behind them both, but catching up quickly. Konsole and VTE-derived terminals are well behind the Kitty/Alacritty forerunners.

if you're using wayland, foot is a masterpiece.

Appendix B of the notcurses book (https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf) entitled "Wherein shade is thrown at terminal emulators..." explores this subject in more depth, though still not as completely as i'd have liked.