Linux Terminal Speed Performance Comparison
gnome-terminal, konsole, wterm, rxvt and Eterm – Linux has a number of well developed and mature terminal applications, but according to a blogger nobody has performed a decent comparison of their text display performance.
With this motivation the guy did some performance tests and was able to conclude that both “gnome-terminal and konsole are exceptionally fast” by taking only only 0.25 to 0.59 seconds to display a 647976 bytes large file, but hey are both very memory hungry, while the more memory efficient ones; wterm, rxvt and Eterm are less speed efficient. And xterm is just slow 
Read the blog entry here: Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison
Gnome terminal.
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Joenson said,
September 7, 2007 @ 15:27
Great comparison
Claus said,
February 21, 2008 @ 21:05
Today I wrote a post on terminal project trying to combine the traditional command line interface with elements from the traditional graphical user interface.
Rethinking the GUI (Graphical User Interface) and the CLI (Command Line Interface)
http://mediakey.dk/~cc/rethinking-the-gui-graphical-user-interface-and-the-cli-command-line-interface/