Re:It's faster? (Score 0, Redundant)

I tried your test with gnome terminal 2.14 and here is what I got.

mrxvt -xft -xftaa -xftfn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -xftsz 8 (0.4.2)
real 0m0.205s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.068s

gnome-terminal (2.14)

real 0m1.616s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.072s

It's really amazing how fast mrxvt is in this case. Transpanrency in both were off.

Here is a screenshot.

http://img482.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mrxvtvers usgnome5vi.png