in reply to (OT) X terminal output speed on linux

Well, the speed of xterm depends on various factors. Besides

it's the amount of scrollback that has most impact on performance.

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Re^2: (OT) X terminal output speed on linux
by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 16, 2006 at 16:53 UTC

    Also, xterm can use true type fonts not only X fonts (rxvt can only use X fonts) and these are much slower than X fonts.

      Both my xterm and urxvt used the default system font(i.e no -fn option specified), although I can't say for sure that they don't select different fonts, but they look the same.

      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum