Re: Severe performance issues with pkgsrc-2006Q3?

[Christian Biere <christianbiere%gmx.de@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:43:57PM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:15:48PM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> > > > I'd recommend using mlterm instead. When using its daemon mode, opening
> > > > a new terminal takes a few milliseconds and it saves a lot of memory.
> > > 
> > > Or rxvt.
> > 
> > rxvt doesn't support Unicode. Does it support multiple terminals? I don't
> > think so. I'd like to avoid the topic "rxvt-unicode" for personal reasons.
> 
> The memory overhead of rxvt is small enough that it doesn't matter.

Thanks but I prefer to use my memory for more useful things.

> Most of the size is shared anyway.

So what? You ignore half of my arguments and provide nothing to back up your
claims. rxvt isn't even maintained anymore. The last release was in 2001. It
has 42 open bugs. Nobody needs 5000 broken terminal emulators and mlterm is
the least-broken. It's certainly not perfect.

-- 
Christian