Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

[Matthias Langer]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:25 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
> Matthias Langer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> Least:
> >>> ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support.
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has
> >> beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program
> >> that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program
> >> gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago.
> >>
> >> Matthias
> >
> > Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached)
> > (higher is better):
> >
> > eterm: 			~ 14 000 l/s
> > xterm: 			~  8 500 l/s
> > gnome-terminal:		~  3 500 l/s
> > frame-buffer:		~     40 l/s
>
> Om my (slow?) laptop I get:
>
> frame-buffer:      34 l/s
> rxvt-unicode:      12 000 l/s
> xterm:             4500 l/s
> Konsole:           6666 l/s
> gnome-terminal:    6666 l/s
>                    ^^^
>                 _not_ faked :)
>
Maybe this has something to do with your screen resolution; as you are
using a 'slow' laptop, i guess you are using 1024x768, while i use
1280x1024 in my athlon-xp 2400+.

PS: Did you pass any values to the prog ? It's because, it stopps after
it has written 20 000 lines if no arguments are passed. For very fast
terminals this is bad; Imagine a terminal that puts out 11 000 lines per
second. It will then take about 1.8 s to write 20 000 lines. However,
the program uses time(...) and therefore it will write:
20 000 l/s. The '6666' is not a big surprise, because 20 000 / 3 =
6666.7. Thus, if your terminal needs from 3s to 4s for 20000 lines, you
will always get this result if specifying no arguments. As i said before
this is just a quick hack to make some comparisons. However, here is a
slightly impoved version ...