I was thinking about changing the display font in my terminals, just because I could. When I investigated the options, it seemed that most of the fonts I liked better than Monaco (the default) weren't even readable, let alone good-looking, unless they were antialiased. Wondering how much extra rendering that entailed, I set up terminals to display eight different fonts, each with a plain and an antialiased version. I then dumped my entire filesystem through each terminal with the command

and recorded the processor time it used.