Bug#408759: gnome-terminal: terminal is slow

[Paul Szabo]

Dear Sven,

> Are you still having performance issues with gnome-terminal?

Replying again.

Upgraded to sarge 3.1r5: no change. Then upgraded to sid, now using xorg
(not xfree86) and changed driver from vesa to i810 (as xorg vesa could not
do 1280x1024 at 60Hz), and re-ran my test: depending on terminal size (80x24
or full screen) my Celeron2GHz takes between 28 and 53 seconds for
  perl -e '$|=1; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }'
and a mere 0.7 or 1 second for
  perl -e '$|=0; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }'

Seems not fixed at all.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia