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Simple benchmark for terminal output

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2021-06-16 · latest 2025-11-12

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  1. …emulator demo: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm And a terminal rendering benchmark tool: https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
    comment by kaelwd · 2025-11-12 · in Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering
  2. …I can no longer edit my comment. For anybody wondering, this is the correct url by itself: https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
    comment by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2022-05-06 · in Jonathan Blow on how Microsoft responded to Windows Terminal suggestions
  3. > (4) Casey sits down and writes termbench, to illustrate his point ( https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench); it is indeed orders of magnitude faster than Windows Terminal, and proves his point decisively. This is actually pretty…
    comment by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2022-05-06 · in Jonathan Blow on how Microsoft responded to Windows Terminal suggestions
  4. I just ran a quick test using Casey Muratori's termbench ( https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench ) you are an order of magnitude slower than Alacritty, and also significantly slower than iTerm. Warp also locks up pretty severely and only…
    comment by monkeytaco · 2022-04-05 · in Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
  5. how about termbench? https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
    comment by adamrezich · 2021-10-08 · in Xterm.js
  6. …remarkably terrible for something that's GPU accelerated. Casey Muratori has said a lot about it. https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench and https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm were a result. It doesn't mean a lot in terms of quality of…
    comment by AnIdiotOnTheNet · 2021-08-31 · in Windows 11 available on October 5
  7. Does anyone know how it performs on termbench? https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
    comment by logical_person · 2021-08-30 · in Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
  8. …reaching a few dozen, or less, you're doing something wrong. See also his benchmark for terminals: https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
    comment by dmitriid · 2021-07-04 · in How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?
  9. Test it with Casey Muratori's benchmark: https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench Context: https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1401761848022560771
    comment by dmitriid · 2021-06-16 · in GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell