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From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
Subject: Re: scroll speed - emacs vs. xterm vs. rxvt
Date: 04 Mar 2003 11:04:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xznobtpkx.fsf@manganonaujakasit.e.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b40m6d$7th$1@tilde.itg.ti.com

Alexander Sirotkin <demiurg@ti.com> writes:

> I decided to compare different terminals in terms of
> scroll speed, and here is what I found :
> 
> rxvt : 1
> xterm : 2.4
> konsole : 6
> gnome-terminal : 11
> emacs : 42
> 
> Meaning that for instance rxvt is 42 times faster than emacs.

Those numbers puzzle me.  I once did some trivial tests sending huge
amounts of text to various terminals.  In my tests gnome-termnal
outperformed xterm by about five times.  I didn't test emacs.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-04 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-03 22:50 scroll speed - emacs vs. xterm vs. rxvt Alexander Sirotkin
2003-03-03 22:54 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2003-03-04  2:04 ` Wayne Throop
2003-03-04  8:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-04  9:45   ` David Kastrup
2003-03-04 10:04 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2003-03-04 19:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-04 22:40 ` Alexander Sirotkin

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