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by akdkfe223 983 days ago
Does anybody know if it's actually fast in terms of low latency? I personally don't care about GPU acceleration or any of those things that Alacritty and others claim makes them fast when the latency is noticeably worse than older non accelerated emulators.
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If latency is your biggest concern you have to use a terminal emulator without double buffering. So far xterm and mlterm are popular choices.
the latency is excellent, I immediately noticed a huge difference, particularly when seeing the output of long commands (e.g: tail -f)