FC2: gnome-terminal takes much longer to startup than Mozilla

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:22, Troy Dawson wrote:

> This was discussed earlier in the thread "Performance tuning the Fedora 
> Desktop".  I think Warren had the real explanation, though I'm certain there 
> could be others.
> -----------
> In FC2 things have changed for the worse for gnome-terminal performance, where 
> it has become far worse than both konsole and xterm.  A GNOME developer 
> explained to me that was the trade-off necessary in making gnome-terminal able 
> to display unicode characters with pango. 

Yeah but most of this performance hit comes from displaying large
amounts of text, not just starting up and displaying your shell prompt.
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