Re: Speed improvement of gnome-terminal

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Gwe, 2004-10-15 at 14:47, Mark Gordon wrote:
> Hardware acceleration, using texture maps of glyphs?

vte at least already does a lot of clever render tricks. The X server
just doesn't know the right acceleration magic for them.
> 
> Aside from high-performance ASCII animation, I'm not sure why anyone
> would *need* that kind of scrolling speed...

On a decent box quite a few things are significantyl constrained by
current vte performance - including kernel compiles.