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Feature, not a bug
I would think this isn't something specific to the Terminal.app. I remember when OSX was just coming out -- maybe even during the publc beta stage -- there were demos of it running Quicktime movies minimized in the Dock. I would assume that doing that sort of thing took a whole lot of work, as playing full speed video is fairly computationally intensive anyway, and then the system has to dynamically rescale that video to docked size on the fly -- and even more so when using the dock magnification feature.
You're noticing the problem with the Terminal, and maybe it does indeed lack any optimization that Quicktime & other applications might have for docked performance, but I would think that most applications will generate a performance hit when minimized to the dock this way. The two solutions I can think of would be [a] to run long, non-interactive command line programs in the background (thus avoiding any strain on the Terminal, whether or not minimized), or more generally [b] to hide (cmd-h) applications rather than minimize them, thus avoiding the minimization that seems to be consuming all those CPU cycles.
Feature, not a bug
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