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		kickscondor on Jan 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emu... Any idea how much memory it takes to store the full atlas for a font with full Unicode/emoji support? Also does it work for colored emoji?

vvanders on Jan 6, 2017 [–]

~95k UTF characters x font sizes x font styles(bold, italic, etc) x outline size.

It's pretty large.

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