Yeah, this was my take away as well. Also, iirc their claims of Alacritty being the "fastest" are dubious at best.
I used Kitty for a while instead, which is very similar. More recently I've been trying out Foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
I used Kitty for a while instead, which is very similar. More recently I've been trying out Foot: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Basically every other "simple" terminal I've found behaves better -- xterm, urxvt, konsole, even iTerm2.
I have no idea how they can claim "fastest".
> Benchmarks so far have just involved running find /usr on my Linux system with Alacritty, st, and urxvt, and on macOS against Terminal.app and iTerm2.
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...
They decided to continue marketing it as the fastest terminal emulator anyway.
> > Correct accuracy of first sentence in README #798
> >
> > As documented in #289 it's not currently the fastest-- only a small number of terminals running a single task for initially benchmarked.
>
> nah
To be clear, we’re talking about Kovid here, right?