Re: [dev] [st] 0.3 release

From: Strake <strake888_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:02:00 -0500

On 05/11/2012, Brandon Invergo <brandon_AT_invergo.net> wrote:
> First, to see what I'm talking about:
> 1) Open a terminal and start some CPU monitor (ie top or htop)
> 2) Open another terminal and load a rather large man page (try
> termcap(5))
> 3) Start scrolling down on the man page and watch your Xorg process's
> CPU usage spike. Depending on how fast your computer is, this can be
> anywhere from ~10%-75% CPU usage (15% on this quad-core Intel Core2Pro,
> 75% on my 800mhz Arm Cortex A8)
> 4) Try the same experiment with xterm or urxvt: no CPU spike

I tried this and found that st version 386 actually does better, i.e.
lower CPU usage, than urxvt.
Received on Mon Nov 05 2012 - 14:02:00 CET