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Extremely lower performance when displaying too many box-shading glyphs #6974

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Windows build number: 19619
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 1.0.1811.0

Any other software? No

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  1. Use WriteConsoleOutputW function to fill console with block characters and random foreground colors.

Expected behavior

Smooth and high performance

Actual behavior

  1. The new windows terminal performs very bad (same with powershell or cmd), only refreshing at a few fps. While the old terminal can easily get to a few hundred.
  2. And selecting the filled area after that is very laggy in new windows terminal, but it's very smooth in old windows console. See my gifs below.
    new_terminal
    old_terminal

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Area-PerformancePerformance-related issueArea-RenderingText rendering, emoji, complex glyph & font-fallback issuesHelp WantedWe encourage anyone to jump in on these.In-PRThis issue has a related PRIssue-BugIt either shouldn't be doing this or needs an investigation.Priority-2A description (P2)Product-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.

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