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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ tweak them to look correct on your display. By default, tofi isn't really any faster than its alternatives. However, when configured correctly, it can startup and get on screen within a single frame, -or about 4ms in the ideal case. +or about 2ms in the ideal case. ### Options In roughly descending order, the most important options for performance are: @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ In roughly descending order, the most important options for performance are: sharpness, but your mileage may vary. This option has no effect if a path to a font file hasn't been passed to `--font`. +* `--late-keyboard-init` - The last avoidable thing that slows down startup is + initialisation of the keyboard. This only takes 1-2ms on my laptop, but up + to 60ms on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Passing this option will delay keyboard + initialisation until after the first draw to screen, meaning that *keypresses + will be missed* until then, so it's disabled by default. + ### Benchmarks Below are some rough benchmarks of the included themes on different machines. @@ -184,3 +190,45 @@ window has entered the screen. Results are the mean and standard deviation of </tr> </tbody> </table> + +The table below additionally includes `--late-keyboard-init` in the arguments. + +<table> + <thead> + <tr> + <th colspan=2 rowspan=2/> + <th colspan=3> Theme </th> + </tr> + <tr> + <th> fullscreen </th> + <th> dmenu </th> + <th> dos </th> + </tr> + </thead> + <tbody> + <tr> + <th rowspan=4> Machine </th> + <th> Ryzen 3 3700X <br> 2560px × 1440px </th> + <td align=right> 7.9ms ± 1.0ms </td> + <td align=right> 2.3ms ± 0.8ms </td> + <td align=right> 3.8ms ± 0.8ms </td> </tr> + <tr> + <th> Ryzen 5 5600U (AC) <br> 2880px × 1800px </th> + <td align=right> 13.4ms ± 0.8ms </td> + <td align=right> 2.6ms ± 0.5ms </td> + <td align=right> 5.5ms ± 0.51ms </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <th> Ryzen 5 5600U (battery) <br> 2880px × 1800px </th> + <td align=right> 21.8ms ± 1.8ms </td> + <td align=right> 3.6ms ± 0.7ms </td> + <td align=right> 8.1ms ± 0.7ms </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <th> Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W <br> 1920px × 1080px </th> + <td align=right> 98.3ms ± 5.7ms </td> + <td align=right> 44.8ms ± 16.3ms </td> + <td align=right> 87.4ms ± 9.9ms </td> + </tr> + </tbody> +</table> |