nick black

> So, I just tried my ancient sixvid gif viewer on the sixel capable terminals that are packaged with the current Debian GNU/Linux (11, bullseye) and got some results that...

if we look beyond sixel: | term | version | pgeom | cgeom | times | |--------|-----------|-----------|----------|----------| | kitty | 0.23.1 | 880x1440 | 88x70 | 33.179s 33.477s 33.385s |...

i put these stats up at https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Notcurses#Pixel_blitters. @kovidgoyal, i know you like this kind of thing =]

j4james: my praise for WezTerm is for its kitty implementation. I recall it being unremarkable with sixel, though not as poor as your results would suggest. if you built from...

> > were you running `foot` in a standalone Wayland, or xwayland? i'm not sure the latter would be a particularly fair comparison. > > A good question and one...

> Yeah thanks, and am happy to see no surprises there, and this is without using side band transmission even, I think? correct, Notcurses eschews zee sideband

with that said, my sixel vs kitty numbers oughtn't be taken out of the Notcurses context. my sixel quantization algorithm, as I've mentioned, is not where I'd like it to...

> > I didn't even think VTE implemented sixel? > Like XTerm, you've got to build it yourself with the appropriate option enabled. I don't think you'll find it in...

> @j4james just schooled me on that one this week. I had been complaining that my VT340 doesn't go to the next line at the end of sixels. Turns out...

> oh absolutely, i'd love for that to be the case. i have a good hundred lines of code devoted to dealing with this annoyance. kitty meanwhile has `c=1` which...