Chris's Random Ramblings
Fri, 05 Nov 2004 - Pretty, but slow
In an xterm:
cyeoh@rockhopper:~/foo$ time make clean
...
real 0m2.072s
user 0m1.015s
sys 0m0.518s
In a gnome terminal:
cyeoh@rockhopper:~/foo$ time make clean
...
real 0m43.680s
user 0m1.122s
sys 0m0.651s
gnome-terminal might be pretty, but the time difference is insane. What is going on here? Unknown to me, a significant proportion of some of my compilation times has been due to printing the output to the screen.