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6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2017-01-07 · latest 2023-09-23

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  1. Meanwhile, all GNOME-based terminals are still capped at 40fps: https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10770
  2. …UI animations. Most software I use feels more responsive than anything from the Windows 95 era. [0] https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10704
  3. Some of it is deliberate: https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10543 It's another harmful effect of mobile-first design. A trivial power saving gives measurably improved battery life, but the horrible latency is ignored.
  4. …to be like. I can only assume the slow update is some misguided attempt at power saving. [0] https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10547
    comment by mrob · 2019-03-20 · in Terminal latency (2017)
  5. …into GDB - it looks like it uses O_TMPFILE, but I don't think that quite gives you what you want. https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/65d67f6f814df4f4ab800898bb...
  6. …only by the monitor. But some people might never notice the timing problems in other terminals. [1] https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/b517d20379c7a665e897f925ca... line 10685