--- Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
I am surprised no one has mentioned the real reason
gnome-terminal is
such a CPU hog - font anti-aliasing. The GNOME people say this needs
to be hardware accelerated for decent performance, and that none of
the current video drivers do this. However, Windows does the same
thing on the same machine WAY faster. So either the Linux video
drivers are buggy, or Windows has a 100x faster way to anti-alias
fonts.
it is slow even with accellerated render extension (tried with xig
radeon drivers, X.org HEAD with Eric Anholt accellerated Render ext for
radeon). I'm using it _without_ AA and it is still much slower then
xterm/aterm/whateverterm.
this helps a little bit:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143914
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Fryderyk Dziarmagowski
PLD Linux Distribution