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kunai on Feb 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vim After 11 Years

Trust me, when you have really crappy hardware (Intel Atom 1.3GHz w/ 512MB mem), you will notice the difference. Execution of commands that takes 2-3 seconds on Gnome Terminal will be nearly instant on xterm.

gregnavis on Feb 19, 2013 [–]

Is rxvt slower? Recently I switched from xterm to rxvt-unicode and it's really great!

kunai on Feb 19, 2013 | [–]

Not sure... I'll have to give it a go to see if it really is.

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