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@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ are still using the `POWERLEVEL9K` prefix though. them with the "dirty" color (yellow by default) whether they are dirty or not. This makes git prompt much faster on huge repositories. + * `POWERLEVEL9K_EXPERIMENTAL_TIME_REALTIME (STRING) [default="false"]` + + If set to true, `time` segment will update every second, turning into a realtime clock. + ## Try it out Try Powerlevel10k without making any changes to your setup. If you like it, see @@ -127,64 +131,53 @@ docker run -e LANG=C.UTF-8 -e LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 -e TERM=$TERM -it --rm ubuntu bash ## How fast is it? -Powerlevel10k renders prompt about 50 times faster than powerlevel9k/master (stable version) and -about 15 times faster than powerlevel9k/next (beta version). +Powerlevel10k renders prompt between 10 and 100 times faster than powerlevel9k. Here are benchmark results obtained with [zsh-prompt-benchmark](https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-prompt-benchmark) on Intel i9-7900X running Ubuntu 18.04. -| Theme | / | ~/nerd-fonts | -|---------------------|----------:|-------------:| -| powerlevel9k/master | 135 ms | 233 ms | -| powerlevel9k/next | 27 ms | 107 ms | -| **powerlevel10k** | **2 ms** | **6 ms** | -| naked zsh | 1 ms | 1 ms | +| Theme | / | ~/linux | +|---------------------|----------:| ---------:| +| powerlevel9k/master | 101 ms | 280 ms | +| powerlevel9k/next | 26 ms | 255 ms | +| **powerlevel10k** | **1 ms** | **22 ms** | +| naked zsh | 0.05 ms | 0.05 ms | Columns define the current directory where the prompt was rendered. * `/` -- root directory, not a git repo. - * `~/nerd-fonts` -- [nerd-fonts](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts) git repo - with 4k files. + * `~/linux` -- [https://github.com/torvalds/linux](https://github.com/torvalds/linux) git repo + with 60k files. It was checked out to an M.2 SSD. + +powerlevel9k/master is the stable branch of powerlevel9k, the one that virtually everyone uses. +powerlevel9k/next is the development branch for the next release. Here's how the prompt looked like during benchmarking.  It was identical in Powerlevel10k and Powerlevel9k. Even though Powerlevel10k can dynamically -switch to async prompts, it wasn't happening here because latencies were low. Prompts with both -themes were essentially synchronous with every prompt having up-to-date git info. - -_This table used to have another column for Linux kernel git repo, which is massive. It's -been removed because it's not a fair comparison. Powerlevel10k automatically detects that -fetching git status is slow and switches to async prompt generation, which allows it to -achieve 2 ms prompt latency but not all its prompt have up-to-date git info. Those that don't, -have vcs segment greyed out._ +switch to async prompts, it wasn't happening during the benchmark because latencies were low. +Prompts with both themes were essentially synchronous, with every prompt having up-to-date git info +(no greyed-out vcs/git segments). Configuration that was used: ```zsh POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(dir_writable dir vcs) -POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status background_jobs time custom_rprompt) +POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status time) POWERLEVEL9K_MODE=nerdfont-complete POWERLEVEL9K_PROMPT_ON_NEWLINE=true -POWERLEVEL9K_CUSTOM_RPROMPT=custom_rprompt -POWERLEVEL9K_ROOT_ICON=\\uF09CPOWERLEVEL9K_TIME_ICON=\\uF017 -POWERLEVEL9K_CUSTOM_RPROMPT_ICON=\\uF005 +POWERLEVEL9K_ROOT_ICON=\\uF09C +POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_ICON=\\uF017 POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_BACKGROUND=magenta -POWERLEVEL9K_CUSTOM_RPROMPT_BACKGROUND=blue POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_OK_BACKGROUND=grey53 -POWERLEVEL9K_BACKGROUND_JOBS_BACKGROUND=orange1 -POWERLEVEL9K_BACKGROUND_JOBS_FOREGROUND=black - -function custom_rprompt() echo -E "hello world" - -sleep 86400 & # spawn two background jobs -sleep 86400 & ``` -Powerlevel10k shows similar performance on Mac OS, FreeBSD, WSL, and Raspberry Pie. +Powerlevel10k shows similar performance advantage over Powerlevel9k on Mac OS, FreeBSD, WSL, and +Raspberry Pie. ## What's the catch? |
