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Same reason you need it for your terminal (see kitty terminal). It's surprisingly slow to cpu render text, gpu rendering is more power efficient and far more responsive
It was surprising how gpu accelerated rendering helped read logs better. Niche case, but better was better.
Better in what sense?
More readable on my part. The speed at which logs could write to the screen and still be readable was faster for me compared to before.
Interesting! I'd like to experience this at some point.
Surprisingly slow compared to GPU rendering. But... is it really "surprisingly slow"? If it was some 10mhz machine, then sure... I'd agree with you.
Look at the benchmarks on kitty https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/
Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't the benchmark be a good approximation to the real workload? I don't see how the measurements reflect the performance difference in real life usages.
Why would I need 100MiB/s processing as opposed to 20MiB/s processing, when I can only read maybe several lines per second?
Faster processing means more efficient processing which means less power draw.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2701#issuecomment-911089374
How about keypress latency? Over 3x faster than gnome terminal and 4x faster than alacritty
So I don't.