--- Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Fryderyk Dziarmagowski PLD Linux Distribution
