ghostty terminal torture results

color-test.txt

https://github.com/termstandard/colors
perl ./color-spaces.pl
  https://share.cleanshot.com/0msn6Rz6
24-bit-color.sh
  https://share.cleanshot.com/vd4rfdF9

host-environment.txt

➜ uname -a
Darwin p0x.local 24.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0: Fri Dec  6 19:02:41 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.5~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64

➜ nproc --all
12

➜ memory_pressure
The system has 19327352832 (1179648 pages with a page size of 16384).

Stats:
Pages free: 14689
Pages purgeable: 5813
Pages purged: 6319174

Swap I/O:
Swapins: 0
Swapouts: 0

Page Q counts:
Pages active: 271821
Pages inactive: 268802
Pages speculative: 429
Pages throttled: 0
Pages wired down: 282080

Compressor Stats:
Pages used by compressor: 299551
Pages decompressed: 14394223
Pages compressed: 18464491

File I/O:
Pageins: 4360201
Pageouts: 107261

System-wide memory free percentage: 48%

misc-tests.txt

yes "test line" | head -n 100000
  Scrollback performance was great, it's all subjective, I don't know how to generate data for scrollback performance.

clipboard
  worked as expected
  
Kitten Graphics Protocol
  https://share.cleanshot.com/2NlLprVM
  https://github.com/chase/awrit
  unreasonably cool that I can run a webbrowser in my terminal. I didn't even know about this prior to me torture testing ghostty
  Ghostty doesn't recover from exiting from `awrit` but it does work.
  
  
  https://share.cleanshot.com/9KYkY9tZ
  displays images without issue 
  ❯ identify ~/Downloads/CPU\ Utilization.png ~/Downloads/turkey4.png
    ~/Downloads/CPU Utilization.png PNG 1876x952 1876x952+0+0 8-bit sRGB 125758B 0.000u 0:00.000
    ~/Downloads/turkey4.png PNG 64x48 64x48+0+0 8-bit sRGB 5866B 0.000u 0:00.000
 

unicode-test.txt

curl -s 'https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/quickbrown.txt'

This isn't a test so much as a subjective visual review. I saw lots of characters I didn't realize, but I didn't see any characters that looked incorect.

https://share.cleanshot.com/BLw5gQ3q

vtebench.txt

Results:

  dense_cells (858 samples @ 1 MiB):
    11ms avg (90% < 12ms) +-1.44ms

  medium_cells (524 samples @ 1.06 MiB):
    18.38ms avg (90% < 19ms) +-1.61ms

  scrolling (393 samples @ 1 MiB):
    20.25ms avg (90% < 21ms) +-2.3ms

  scrolling_bottom_region (332 samples @ 1 MiB):
    29.55ms avg (90% < 31ms) +-3.43ms

  scrolling_bottom_small_region (338 samples @ 1 MiB):
    29.24ms avg (90% < 30ms) +-1.97ms

  scrolling_fullscreen (282 samples @ 1 MiB):
    30.5ms avg (90% < 32ms) +-0.89ms

  scrolling_top_region (328 samples @ 1 MiB):
    30.03ms avg (90% < 31ms) +-1.07ms

  scrolling_top_small_region (337 samples @ 1 MiB):
    29.28ms avg (90% < 30ms) +-0.83ms

  unicode (1330 samples @ 1.06 MiB):
    6.92ms avg (90% < 7ms) +-0.88ms