[matsz]

> VSCode already renders terminal on GPU

When did they add that? Last time I used it, it was still based on xterm.js.

Also, technically Chromium/Blink has GPU rendering built in for web pages, so everything could run on GPU.

[nurumaik]

Enabled by default since about a year

> GPU acceleration driven by the WebGL renderer is enabled in the terminal by default. This helps the terminal work faster and display at a high FPS by significantly reducing the time the CPU spends rendering each frame

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/appearance#_gpu-...

[Tyriar]

It's actually been the default since v1.55 which released early April 2021: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_55#_webgl-renderer-...

Before that from v1.17 (~October 2017) it was using a 2d canvas context: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-rend...

[jcheng]

Wow, it's true--Terminal is <canvas>, while the editor is DOM elements (for now). I'm impressed that I use both every day and never noticed any difference.