John Siracusa1d ago

“Apple II Forever” indeed…

https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software/

Show threadNiki
@siracusa We measured MBP 2021 (120 Hz) at ~40ms. 100ms sounds way too much for 2014 MBP https://late-mate.com/old/updates/003/update-003
Late Mate — Measure latency from keypress to the screen

Portable universal latency measurement device — from keypress to the screen

Late Mate
Apr 5 at 2:10pmWeb
Show threadIvan Reese1d ago
@nikitonsky @siracusa would love to get my hands on a late mate, just sayin
Show threadNiki1d ago
@spiralganglion I’ll ask Dan if he had any prototypes left, if yes, will send you one!
Show threadMarcin Wichary1d ago
@nikitonsky @siracusa I imagine this is skipping both the keyboard matrix scanning and maybe also using a more typical (slower) word processor as software, although the delta is still too large to explain both I think?
Show threadFazal Majid1d ago

@nikitonsky @siracusa it depends on the app, of course. Terminal.app is nearly 10x faster than iTerm2, for instance:

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

Terminal latency