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		tristan957 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Ch... Ghostty uses GTK + GPU rendering while Foot uses Wayland primitives and CPU rendering.

colordrops 14 days ago [–]

I've seen zero performance issues with foot.

tristan957 7 days ago | [–]

My comment was not to imply that Ghostty performed better than Foot. Foot is a great terminal.

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