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It's still an order of magnitude slower during startup than other terminals such as xterm, rxvt or even mlterm. On my intel laptop I can often see the gl context flashing before becoming the final background color, which is annoying. Requires also way more ram.

kitty is a great terminal, but it's one example of fast not being also lightweight.

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I cant reply to your other post, so: you need to run the other kitty instance also with -1. If you do that, you will get the same numbers I got.

I know, I'm actually using kitty regularly.

time kitty -1 false real 0.098 user 0.080 sys 0.017 maxmem 23 MB faults 0

time xterm false real 0.052 user 0.035 sys 0.000 maxmem 9 MB faults 1

Doesnt look like an order of magnitude to me.

xterm false 0.06s user 0.01s system 81% cpu 8Mb mem 0.090 total

mlterm -e false 0.08s user 0.02s system 84% cpu 13Mb mem 0.125 total

kitty -1 false 0.22s user 0.05s system 93% cpu 78Mb mem 0.290 total

(and yes, there's a kitty instance running already..)

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