Does this update speed up things as well by any chance?
I like iTerm2 a lot, but one day when i coincidentally
started using the normal Terminal i noticed how fast it was/how slow iTerm2 was, which is the reason i stopped using iTerm2 and switched to TotalTerminal (a plugin for Terminal.app).
Yes! The incoming bytestream is now parsed into tokens in a separate thread. There are various other performance improvements as well, such as a fastpath for when no double-width characters are present.
I like iTerm2 a lot, but one day when i coincidentally started using the normal Terminal i noticed how fast it was/how slow iTerm2 was, which is the reason i stopped using iTerm2 and switched to TotalTerminal (a plugin for Terminal.app).