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akdkfe223 on Oct 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

Does anybody know if it's actually fast in terms of low latency? I personally don't care about GPU acceleration or any of those things that Alacritty and others claim makes them fast when the latency is noticeably worse than older non accelerated emulators.

sprash on Oct 8, 2023 | [–]

If latency is your biggest concern you have to use a terminal emulator without double buffering. So far xterm and mlterm are popular choices.

angra_mainyu on Oct 8, 2023 | [–]

the latency is excellent, I immediately noticed a huge difference, particularly when seeing the output of long commands (e.g: tail -f)

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