[EPILEPSY WARNING] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?
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Casey Muratori shows how fast a terminal renderer can run, building a simple reference renderer that handles Unicode and colored text far quicker than Windows Terminal. He argues that common excuses for slow terminals do not hold up.
Why HN recommends it: It is the canonical reference for the claim that modern software wastes hardware, and the proof-of-concept behind the Windows Terminal performance debate.
“Casey spent <1 week making RefTerm, a skeleton proto-terminal with the same constraints Microsoft people had” Read on HN ↗