Kitty 0.49 terminal adds custom shaders and up to 50% speedup
Kitty 0.49, the GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, is out with custom shader support for visual effects. Real-world throughput improves by 15–35%, ASCII-heavy workloads gain about 50%, and a new AVX-512 decoder boosts multibyte text by up to 75%.
- Throughput improves 15–35% depending on workload
- ASCII-heavy workloads gain about 50%, Unicode about 15%
- AVX-512 decoder adds up to 75% for multibyte text on new CPUs
- New kitten @ screenshot and set-os-window-title commands
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