Which is the fastest?  aterm or wterm, so far.  Too bad they don't support unicode.  GNOME Terminal never finished the test after 60 minutes, so I didn't bother listing it.

% lspci|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

xterm 235-2

% time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 41.0486 s, 26.2 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024  0.01s user 6.81s system 16% cpu 41.050 total

aterm 1.0.1-4

% time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 16.9774 s, 63.2 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024  0.00s user 6.63s system 39% cpu 16.979 total

wterm 6.2.9-8

% time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 17.058 s, 62.9 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024  0.00s user 6.61s system 38% cpu 17.059 total

rxvt 1:2.6.4-14

% time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.4532 s, 58.2 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024  0.00s user 7.12s system 38% cpu 18.455 total

rxvt-unicode 9.05-1+lenny1

% time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.9052 s, 56.8 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024  0.01s user 6.63s system 35% cpu 18.907 total

I need something that supports unicode, and is just as fast as aterm.

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