[$] A look at terminal emulators, part 2

A comparison of the feature sets for a handful of terminal emulators wasthe subject of a recent article; here I follow that up byexamining the performance of those terminals. This might seem like alesser concern, but as it turns out, terminals exhibit surprisinglyhigh latency for such fundamental programs. I also examine what istraditionally considered "speed" (but is really scroll bandwidth) andmemory usage, with the understanding that the impact of memory useis less than it was when I looked at this a decade ago (inFrench).

Subscribers can read on for part 2 from guest author Antoine Beaupri(C).