gnometerminal CPU load?

[Mezz bsdforums.org]

>Hi,
>
>is vte just really inefficient, or why does gnometerminal eat so many more 
>cycles when compiled with vte instead of zvt?
>
>I can fully load one of my CPUs doing nothing but "find /usr" in a large 
>gnometerminal, especially when using a TrueType font w/smoothing.
>
>Is this what I should be seeing?

It's known issue, even in the Linux world is seeing this too. But, I am 
seeing a lot of improvement in the Gnome 2.3.x. The authors of VTE are 
working pretty quick, hard and doing well on it so far. You should see how 
old VTE was. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz

>Thanks,
>Lars
>
>PS: Of course vte looks nicer...
>--
>Lars Eggert <larse at isi.edu>           USC Information Sciences Institute

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