In before the torrent of responses such as "no reasonable human being would have a terminal with that many characters!!!"
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So they're like 100x off of what you might expect a rudimentary thing to do, at a minimum. Is that what you mean by baseline?
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It really depends, however, on whether they use GPU acceleration or not, as to whether memory bandwidth on the output side is a factor, so I couldn't say about that part. Not using GPU acceleration would be kind of insane these days, but so is 2fps, so, I don't know.
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A baseline would ideally be an other terminal emulator on similar hardware. To be clear, I agree about your guesses of what the performance should be.
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But this is all dumb. Why is "terminal emulation" slow? If it's slow why don't they cache each line? And why are we doing "terminal emulation" anyway, except for back compat? The color and formatting codes we use today are really dumb and uncontrollable and don't do a lot.
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