gnome-terminal benchmark

[Will Cohen]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:19:42PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
>>But is it interesting to time the startup time of gnome-terminal? While
>>that's perhaps an interesting benchmark as well, it has little
>>correlation with questions like "how fast will my kernel compile
>>go when run in gnome-terminal"?
> 
> 
> But will cat end after all output has been displayed or before? (Due to
> pipe buffers.)

I don't know. That is a good question. I don't know enough about the 
gnome-terminal internals to say.

>>If we are measuring wall clock time, timing the cat command seems
>>to be pretty appropriate.
>>
>>If we are measuring CPU usage, then we need to find CPU usage from
>>the terminal *and* from the X server, so we already need to use a
>>tool like oprofile that can get a global view.
> 
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Regards,
> Luciano Rocha
>