PuffTheMagic/wTerm — pull request #17 by dtzWill (2012-01-08 04:25:03+00:00)
Title: New GL backend

See commits for details, this is very much faster.

One way to see it in action is to try the following:

Time the execution of the following script: https://gist.github.com/1577147
(Taken from http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html, modified to loop 1000x)

Existing wterm: 1m 7.65s
After this patch: 22.78s

Note that I believe the actual rendering speedup is significantly more than that (we *greatly* reduce cost of rendering), but I don't have a useful way to benchmark it at the moment.