On Wed, 12 May 2004, Will Cohen wrote: -cat text file to xterm I wouldn't worry so much about xterm, gnome-terminal and konsole are far worse in terms of performance. I recently ran a couple of tests (which is why I noticed the xterm mark), just a relatively noisy rpmbuild of an application. On my IBM T40 the build times on otherwise idle box, and completely reproducable, give or take couple of seconds: xterm: ~1m 20s gnome-terminal: ~1m 40s konsole: ~1m 40s Building on a virtual console, redirecting output to /dev/null or a file were basically ~1:20 all. That's an awfully lot of time wasted waiting for software to build which lot of us do all the time :-/ For cat it's much more dramatic (obviously): time cat /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys on virtual console:~0.5s xterm: ~3.5s gnome-terminal: ~6.5s konsole: ~10.5s (not only is it slow but also corrupts the terminal leaving garbage on screen) Tests done on RHL 9'ish box, FWIW. - Panu -
