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Apparently they did and in retro-perspective it was indeed that simple. (Simple as in they made their own custom renderer afterall.)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/case-study-how-ma...




Brilliant! Haven't had time to read it yet, but that's great to hear.


I think Casey did a lot of other great work on more correct and speedy non-ASCII support, and very efficient scrollback (in both memory and time cost), etc. It's been a while, but I think the atlas approach is also different. But kudos for what seems to be a good step. I'm curious to see some data on the resulting performance and memory usage (presuming the latter is mostly unchanged).




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