Well I would be very interested in some of this, but it all seems theoretical and mythical. Seriously, what terminal is giving 20% better battery life (or whatever number that people will notice) than kitty.
How can I observe any of these claims in practice?
You’ve put some down some bold claims about how things should be done but no way to verify or validate them at all.
Put up with some real power benchmarks or this is just crack pot.
> To get over 12 hours of battery life out of a 60 Wh battery - which isn't impressive nowadays with laptops rocking 20+ hours
I used 12 hours to be nice. The sell of getting another 10 minutes or so out of 20 hours is even more stark.
The cases where you push a line and scroll, you're repainting most of it anyway. The cases where you're not are end up being infrequent enough that optimizing them in the ways suggested makes an unnoticeable impact.
Build it and they will come maybe?
> Bigger GPUs than your iGPU (or even just later iGPUs) will also likely see even bigger impacts.
In most cases people can get by with an iGPU for a battery laptop cases. If you're in a must pull down more graphical power case, you're often plugged in and few care about 10s of milliwatts then.
> (As an aside, I am not a fan of kitty - they have really weird frame management and terrible recommendations on their wiki. Foot, alacritty or if ghostty turns out good, maybe even that would be better suggestions. Note that comparing to foot can give a wrong image, as CPU-based rendering pushes work to the display server and gives the illusion of being faster and more efficient than it really is.)
Once again, what is the exemplar of an efficient terminal then.
We've already established ghostty doesn't operate the way you think it should so how can it turn out good?
How can I observe any of these claims in practice? You’ve put some down some bold claims about how things should be done but no way to verify or validate them at all. Put up with some real power benchmarks or this is just crack pot.
> To get over 12 hours of battery life out of a 60 Wh battery - which isn't impressive nowadays with laptops rocking 20+ hours
I used 12 hours to be nice. The sell of getting another 10 minutes or so out of 20 hours is even more stark.
The cases where you push a line and scroll, you're repainting most of it anyway. The cases where you're not are end up being infrequent enough that optimizing them in the ways suggested makes an unnoticeable impact. Build it and they will come maybe?
> Bigger GPUs than your iGPU (or even just later iGPUs) will also likely see even bigger impacts.
In most cases people can get by with an iGPU for a battery laptop cases. If you're in a must pull down more graphical power case, you're often plugged in and few care about 10s of milliwatts then.
> (As an aside, I am not a fan of kitty - they have really weird frame management and terrible recommendations on their wiki. Foot, alacritty or if ghostty turns out good, maybe even that would be better suggestions. Note that comparing to foot can give a wrong image, as CPU-based rendering pushes work to the display server and gives the illusion of being faster and more efficient than it really is.)
Once again, what is the exemplar of an efficient terminal then. We've already established ghostty doesn't operate the way you think it should so how can it turn out good?