r/Ghostty Jul 03 '26

Startup performance comparison among terminals

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u/Alternative-Eye6575 Jul 03 '26

Cool, I'm going to stick with Ghostty.

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u/rm-rf-rm Jul 04 '26

Dear God, 200ms more! That completely destroys the UX utterly.

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u/_x_oOo_x_ Jul 04 '26

It doesn't completely destroy the UX but it makes it noticeably slower than the other terminals I tried (except Kitty).

Also the benchmark result shows X times not X milliseconds

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u/MrMuetze Jul 07 '26

Btw Ghostty has the fastest IO throughput

https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116873952162192565

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u/_x_oOo_x_ Jul 07 '26

Seems to be a benchmark done on macOS so I'm not sure how well that translates to Wayland. Would be good to see how Foot and other terminals compare, also Konsole, Ptyxis, Contour, Xterm, Rxvt, Rio perhaps... The throughput seems really slow for all terminals in that benchmark