Dear Sven, > Are you still having performance issues with gnome-terminal?
Replying again. Upgraded to sarge 3.1r5: no change. Then upgraded to sid, now using xorg (not xfree86) and changed driver from vesa to i810 (as xorg vesa could not do [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and re-ran my test: depending on terminal size (80x24 or full screen) my Celeron2GHz takes between 28 and 53 seconds for perl -e '$|=1; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }' and a mere 0.7 or 1 second for perl -e '$|=0; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }' Seems not fixed at all. Cheers, Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]