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According to this (at least 11 months old) benchmark, Ghostty has the worst input latency across all contenders: https://github.com/moktavizen/terminal-benchmark?tab=readme-...

More benchmarks from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253927

14 months old discussion of input latency in Ghostty with comments from the author: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/4837



I'm generally very sensitive to input latency and there's no way Ghostty has 41ms. I've only been using it for a couple of months though, so I guess it's fixed now.

Edit: just saw your second link from 4 months and yes, it's now avg 13ms which feels about right to me. Not perfect but acceptable. So what's even the point of sharing the old benchmark?


The first link is a proper end-to-end benchmark with external camera (kudos to the author for making those), the second link is a more faulty software emulation


I don’t type more than 100 characters a second so I’ve never ran into bits limits.


If you're typing just one character per second you'll still feel the difference. Latency is stress inducing.




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