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Yeah, Atom is really my favorite editor at the moment in terms of features and add-ons but is totally unusable for me due to various performance issues. Not onl

Yeah, Atom is really my favorite editor at the moment in terms of features and add-ons but is totally unusable for me due to various performance issues. Not only does it choke on large files but something like a full-project search can take upwards of 30s to finish while Sublime Text finishes it in about 2-3s. I'd like to switch personally, but I can't until some major performance improvements happen. YMMV.

ngrilly 11y ago
What kind of computer and OS are you using?
- llamataboot 11y ago
  Late 2013 Retina MBP w/ 16GB of RAM
melling 11y ago
Unless you tell someone your OS and hardware, it's really not helpful for people to decide, or even address the problems. Does Atom use a lot of ram or cpu? I've got a 2 year old Mac Book Pro with 16 GB RAM and an SSD. I downloaded Atom 1.6 after the announcement and leave it open to maintain my notes and I haven't noticed any performance problems with a couple dozen files. I might try to use it for another project once I evaluate the plugins.
- dublinben 11y ago
  You shouldn't need a $2000 laptop to run a text editor.
  - dzhiurgis 11y ago
    But you will most likely have it anyway.
    - dublinben 11y ago
      Speak for yourself. My primary computer is a $200 laptop.
      - melling 11y ago
        ok, try Atom and report back. The guy who was complaining had projects of several thousand files, some of which were 50,000 line xml files.
  - melling 11y ago
    No one said you did. I simply stated what I owned and explained how I use it, and how it performed. I imagine the same performance as my 2 year old laptop is equivalent to $500-$800 desktop today.
- llamataboot 11y ago
  yes, I have a few thousand files, some of them are 50k+ line XML files. Sublime still searches my full project in many magnitudes of less time that Atom does. I use Atom for my small toy projects as well.
crucialfelix 11y ago
Yes, search is really slow. But atom-fuzzy-grep is near instantaneous even on large projects. Uses ag pt ack or grep https://atom.io/packages/atom-fuzzy-grep https://atom.io/packages/atom-fuzzy-grep The nice thing about Atom is that you can replace anything that isn't performing.

ngrilly 11y ago

What kind of computer and OS are you using?

llamataboot 11y ago
Late 2013 Retina MBP w/ 16GB of RAM

melling 11y ago

Unless you tell someone your OS and hardware, it's really not helpful for people to decide, or even address the problems. Does Atom use a lot of ram or cpu? I've got a 2 year old Mac Book Pro with 16 GB RAM and an SSD. I downloaded Atom 1.6 after the announcement and leave it open to maintain my notes and I haven't noticed any performance problems with a couple dozen files. I might try to use it for another project once I evaluate the plugins.

dublinben 11y ago
You shouldn't need a $2000 laptop to run a text editor.
- dzhiurgis 11y ago
  But you will most likely have it anyway.
  - dublinben 11y ago
    Speak for yourself. My primary computer is a $200 laptop.
    - melling 11y ago
      ok, try Atom and report back. The guy who was complaining had projects of several thousand files, some of which were 50,000 line xml files.
- melling 11y ago
  No one said you did. I simply stated what I owned and explained how I use it, and how it performed. I imagine the same performance as my 2 year old laptop is equivalent to $500-$800 desktop today.
llamataboot 11y ago
yes, I have a few thousand files, some of them are 50k+ line XML files. Sublime still searches my full project in many magnitudes of less time that Atom does. I use Atom for my small toy projects as well.

crucialfelix 11y ago

Yes, search is really slow. But atom-fuzzy-grep is near instantaneous even on large projects. Uses ag pt ack or grep https://atom.io/packages/atom-fuzzy-grep https://atom.io/packages/atom-fuzzy-grep The nice thing about Atom is that you can replace anything that isn't performing.