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lopkeny12ko 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ghostty 1.0

To be honest, I don't "get" ghostty. I am not really seeing how this is so much better than the GNOME terminal that ships with my Linux distro.

A lot of people are claiming that ghostty is "faster." I watched the lightning talk where the author claims that catting files and binaries is faster.

I tried this against ghostty itself after building with zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast, using: time cat ghostty.

In GNOME terminal, it took 3.340s. In ghostty, it took 16.947s. I must be doing something wrong?

matrixhelix 5 months ago | [–]

The cool part is that you don’t have to “get” Ghostty, you can continue using whatever you prefer

infensus 4 months ago | [–]

Are there any use cases for running `cat` on a binary without at least piping it somewhere? The output will be mostly garbage

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