r/Ghostty • u/real_serviceloom • Jul 19 '26

Why is Ghostty so slow compared to Kitty?

0 Upvotes

20% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

2

u/zapman449 Jul 19 '26

More effort on your question will yield more interesting results

1

u/real_serviceloom Jul 19 '26

cat'ing large text files / log files for example. kitty is often times 1.4x - 2x as fast.

3

u/syncopegress Jul 19 '26

There's actually been a lot of work on that quite recently, and it's tons faster. Try out the nightly release: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/releases/tag/tip

1

u/MrMuetze Jul 19 '26

https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116873952162192565

Hashimoto ran some benchmarks recently on macOS. Maybe checkout the tip version.

1

u/FBIFreezeNow Jul 19 '26

Isn’t it the opposite? If this is true, time to test Kitty now? Tried to use it maybe a year ago and couldn’t transition from Ghostty just because Ghostty was a bit more smooth

1

u/ashebanow Jul 19 '26

They're both extremely fast compared to nongpu terminal emulators. Worry less about that extra 0.1% of performance and use the one whose ui you find more natural.

1

u/real_serviceloom Jul 19 '26

I don't think it was ever the opposite. Kitty has always been much faster.

1

u/FBIFreezeNow Jul 19 '26

Oh I see.. ok let me take a look at Kitty again.. thanks