On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:22, Troy Dawson wrote:
This was discussed earlier in the thread "Performance tuning the
Fedora
Desktop". I think Warren had the real explanation, though I'm certain there
could be others.
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In FC2 things have changed for the worse for gnome-terminal performance, where
it has become far worse than both konsole and xterm. A GNOME developer
explained to me that was the trade-off necessary in making gnome-terminal able
to display unicode characters with pango.
Yeah but most of this performance hit comes from displaying large
amounts of text, not just starting up and displaying your shell prompt.