Bug#408759: closed by Guillaume Delacour <gui at iroqwa.org> (Closed because gnome-terminal 2.14 is outdated.)

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 11 avril 2009 à 07:18 +1000, Paul Szabo a écrit :
> psz at ASI:~$ dpkg -l gnome-terminal
> ii  gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
> psz at ASI:~$ ps --no-headers -p $PPID
>  5637 pts/1    00:00:04 gnome-terminal
> psz at ASI:~$ time perl -e '$|=0; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }'
> real	0m0.932s
> psz at ASI:~$ time perl -e '$|=1; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }'
> real	0m1.184s
> 
> Please comment on why does flushed output take so long in the X server,
> and why is gnome-terminal so inefficient. Actually improving them would
> be appreciated.

I have just made the test with gnome-terminal 2.24, and it is noticeably
faster than rxvt on my desktop. (500ms compared to 700ms).

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