Ghostty author exposes Velocity terminal benchmark: 99% of input discarded per tick

Ghostty author Mitchell Hashimoto inspected the source of the Velocity terminal and found its read loop overwrites the buffer every tick, discarding 99% of input without parsing — making its "faster" benchmark claims fraudulent.

2026-10-28 ~ 2026-10-28 · 2 related posts

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