Re: gnome terminal, or Eterm... Lets speed up gnome-terminal

[Shawn <core enodev com>]

Well, looks like gnome-terminal wins by a landslide now. I don't know
what's different from the last time I checked, but the difference is not
only more consistent than before they are totally frelling backwards. GT
is now a full frelling twice as fast.

A simple text scrolling, "Fixed" font, trans and solid test:

The "/tmp/tmp" file, an "xdpyinfo", XFree86.0.log, and
/proc/driver/nvidia yada yada can bee seen at:
http://www.enodev.com/terminal-files.tar.gz
(let me know if my apache goes down)

$ wc -l /tmp/tmp
60983 /tmp/tmp

gnome-terminal:
24x80 Transparent
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.13s system 1% cpu 10.955 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.13s system 1% cpu 11.035 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.12s system 1% cpu 11.133 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.15s system 1% cpu 11.097 total

70x208 Transparent
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.30s system 0% cpu 40.018 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.29s system 0% cpu 40.011 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.28s system 0% cpu 40.291 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.24s system 0% cpu 40.139 total

24x80 Solid Color Background
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.15s system 1% cpu 10.683 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.13s system 1% cpu 10.721 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.14s system 1% cpu 10.821 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.13s system 1% cpu 10.984 total

70x208 Solid Color Background
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.06s system 0% cpu 39.171 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.06s system 0% cpu 39.723 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.07s system 0% cpu 39.217 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.05s system 0% cpu 39.411 total


Eterm: Eterm [--trans --shade=70] -f lightgrey -L 20000
24x80 Transparent
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.13s system 0% cpu 26.000 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.09s system 0% cpu 34.215 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.11s system 0% cpu 33.777 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.11s system 0% cpu 33.917 total

70x208 Transparent
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.12s system 0% cpu 37.064 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.10s system 0% cpu 50.091 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.10s system 0% cpu 50.809 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.12s system 0% cpu 50.900 total

24x80 Solid Color Background
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.14s system 0% cpu 24.516 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.11s system 0% cpu 32.782 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.12s system 0% cpu 34.360 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.13s system 0% cpu 32.662 total

70x208 Solid Color Background
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.12s system 0% cpu 55.647 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.10s system 0% cpu 48.651 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.01s user 0.12s system 0% cpu 50.550 total
 cat /tmp/tmp  0.00s user 0.12s system 0% cpu 50.427 total