Another serious question: why do terminal emulators need hardware acceleration? #ELI5

@buherator rendering text is surprisingly complex and expensive, especially at “high speed”

@tomzorz Thank you, that is surprising but makes sense! I still wonder how noticable the speed of CPU rendering is given the ridiculous speed of our CPU's compared to our eyes? Is there a demo of this somewhere?

@tomzorz OK so the closest to what I'm looking for is this, where the author dumps buttloads of data to the screen to measure speed - something I've been told as a reason for acceleration before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8kgOplAKQ (I tried to ignore the discussion...)

IMO dumping this amount of data to your terminal is usually the result of a mistake because you just can't read through the data anyway. This suggests GPU acceleration is a micro-optimization.

@buherator For cosmetic reasons I think. After trying many on Linux, I use the default one on Gnome.