Description Michael Scharf 2006-11-20 15:59:28 EST

The current terminal implementation is about 60 times slower than for example rxvt (on cygwin) to show 3 MB of terminal input (http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ to get all: http://artscene.textfiles.com/archives/vt100.zip). Here some performance numbers:

rxvt (on cygwin)     :      5.7 sec  550 kb/sec
hyperterminal        :     11.8 sec  265 kb/sec
xterm (on cygwin)    :     24.5 sec  127 kb/sec
sshview              :     40.3 sec   77 kb/sec

terminal (in eclipse):    333.8 sec    10 kb/sec

Remarks:

- rxvt is a vt102 emulator -- it's supposed to be a xterm replacement: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxvt

- microsofts hyperterminal does not show anything at that speed. It shows the "result" at the end.

- sshview is a swing based eclipse ssh based terminal emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/parsec/