libghostty has always been fast, but it's also been getting significantly faster. Here…
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libghostty has always been fast, but it's also been getting significantly faster. Here are IO throughput measurements comparing Ghostty 1.3.1, 1.4.0, and main as of this morning. We'll be backporting most of these to a 1.4.1 release soon. Here are some highlights of the changes since 1.4: - Ghostty 1.4 had a fast-path for printing runs of plain text. But the fast-path only applied to limited cases. We now support mixed width characters and hyperlinks in the fast path. - Our input path always widened the pty data to codepoints (8-bit to 32-bit) as part of UTF-8 decode, which also incurred a
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