Re: scroll speed - emacs vs. xterm vs. rxvt

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Alexander Sirotkin <demiurg@ti.com> writes:

> I decided to compare different terminals in terms of
> scroll speed, and here is what I found :
> 
> rxvt : 1
> xterm : 2.4
> konsole : 6
> gnome-terminal : 11
> emacs : 42
> 
> Meaning that for instance rxvt is 42 times faster than emacs.

Those numbers puzzle me.  I once did some trivial tests sending huge
amounts of text to various terminals.  In my tests gnome-termnal
outperformed xterm by about five times.  I didn't test emacs.

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