a big multicore is 77% more awesome when running bpytop, this is simply a fact
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I can't stop running CPU-intensive stuff and watching bpytop.
It's beautiful.
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Meh. I can't stand running monitoring tools that consume a sizeable chunk of resources on the system being monitored.
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well, gnome terminal uses like 20% of one of my processors normally, so I don't really object that much to something different
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I've gotten used to sending output to a file rather than to the terminal because even the more efficient ones add overhead if there's a lot of output. It's more efficient to watch it with `tail -f` or better yet not at all.
Modern text rendering is really demanding and slow...
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The APIs are monstrous. Libcairo, libpango, zillions of dependencies.
It's fun to fire up MGR sometimes and be reminded of how cheap&fast it used to be.
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This thread inspired me to officially retire that project:
github.com/thestinger/ter
I knew Alacritty had a keyboard-based text selection mode inspired by ours but I hadn't realized they'd added a comparable regex-based hints mode for quickly opening URLs, etc. too.
GPU-based rendering approach is also a nice fit with reducing CPU usage during compilation, fuzzing, etc. with a lot of output being generated.
It's certainly drastically higher throughput than VTE with lower CPU usage. I'm sure rendering all that text is still pretty demanding.