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What kind of environments (software, hardware) is everyone running this one? I tried it once, and I found it much more sluggish and unresponsive compared to my

by cm3 10y ago

What kind of environments (software, hardware) is everyone running this one? I tried it once, and I found it much more sluggish and unresponsive compared to my X11 Emacs setup. EDIT: I should add that I have all the bells and whistles like excellent fuzzy input selection via ido and even live preview of Markdown rendering via markdown-mode plus eww (requires Emacs to be built with libxml2). Plus on the fly error checking if I need it, auto completion, terminal emulators, etc. Just saying, before anyone argues Emacs doesn't support modern amenities.

Longhanks 10y ago
Well, of course, the Electron framework, which is essentially a stripped down Chrome browser, consumes more hardware resources than a terminal-based text editor. On my machine (Core i5-4590, no extra graphics card, 8 GB memory), once it's open (which takes a while), it's nevertheless very fast and definitely not sluggish.
- easytiger 10y ago
  > terminal-based text editor. He said X11 based, so its the actual GUI one with native widgets et al
pjmlp 10y ago
On my Ubuntu netbook that I use for short trips and on Windows, mainly for Rust editing. The netbook has 4GB with dual core Brazos APU and it is quite fast, to the point that it is maybe the only web based application that I run as desktop application.
krakensden 10y ago
In fairness, x11 emacs is literally the snappiest thing I have ever used on any platform. It is totally nuts.
- _acme 10y ago
  Have you tried sam or acme? Both are remarkably snappy.
  - cm3 10y ago
    To be fair, both devdraw GUIs have a long-standing improper scrolling issue, which may or may not be a feature because it's simple and fast.
randallsquared 10y ago
I run it on a Macbook Pro 15 2015, a Macbook Air 11 2011, and a frankenbox with an i7 from 2013. On the Air it takes 10 seconds or so to launch. On the others it's less than 5 seconds. Compare to PHPStorm, which is kinda useable in less than 30 seconds, and takes a minute or two to index a relatively small codebase and be fully useable. (Of course, PHPStorm does a lot more than VS Code, but I find that I don't use it anymore anyway; testing startup time just now was the first time I'd opened it in months. I guess I should stop paying for it.)
- cm3 10y ago
  I'd go nuts with such long launch times, regardless of daemon mode.
  - randallsquared 10y ago
    When I use a command line editor, I tend to launch a new editor for each file, edit, save, and quit. For GUI editors, I tend to just leave them running on some desktop and add files to them, so I rarely start them and wait; instead I just open a new file or a new window and continue.
Frondo 10y ago
On my lowish-end HP laptop (Intel Celeron(R) 3205U @ 1.50GHz, says /proc/cpuinfo), Geany is my IDE of choice for HTML, PHP, and C stuff. It starts instantly, never lags, etc. Emacs has always been a bit laggier than that (and a few seconds to start). VSCode starts slower than Emacs, but once it's running it feels much snappier--on par with Geany, though I still only use it for C#/F#.

by cm3 10y ago

Longhanks 10y ago

Well, of course, the Electron framework, which is essentially a stripped down Chrome browser, consumes more hardware resources than a terminal-based text editor. On my machine (Core i5-4590, no extra graphics card, 8 GB memory), once it's open (which takes a while), it's nevertheless very fast and definitely not sluggish.

easytiger 10y ago
> terminal-based text editor. He said X11 based, so its the actual GUI one with native widgets et al

pjmlp 10y ago

On my Ubuntu netbook that I use for short trips and on Windows, mainly for Rust editing. The netbook has 4GB with dual core Brazos APU and it is quite fast, to the point that it is maybe the only web based application that I run as desktop application.

krakensden 10y ago

In fairness, x11 emacs is literally the snappiest thing I have ever used on any platform. It is totally nuts.

_acme 10y ago
Have you tried sam or acme? Both are remarkably snappy.
- cm3 10y ago
  To be fair, both devdraw GUIs have a long-standing improper scrolling issue, which may or may not be a feature because it's simple and fast.

randallsquared 10y ago

I run it on a Macbook Pro 15 2015, a Macbook Air 11 2011, and a frankenbox with an i7 from 2013. On the Air it takes 10 seconds or so to launch. On the others it's less than 5 seconds. Compare to PHPStorm, which is kinda useable in less than 30 seconds, and takes a minute or two to index a relatively small codebase and be fully useable. (Of course, PHPStorm does a lot more than VS Code, but I find that I don't use it anymore anyway; testing startup time just now was the first time I'd opened it in months. I guess I should stop paying for it.)

cm3 10y ago
I'd go nuts with such long launch times, regardless of daemon mode.
- randallsquared 10y ago
  When I use a command line editor, I tend to launch a new editor for each file, edit, save, and quit. For GUI editors, I tend to just leave them running on some desktop and add files to them, so I rarely start them and wait; instead I just open a new file or a new window and continue.

Frondo 10y ago

On my lowish-end HP laptop (Intel Celeron(R) 3205U @ 1.50GHz, says /proc/cpuinfo), Geany is my IDE of choice for HTML, PHP, and C stuff. It starts instantly, never lags, etc. Emacs has always been a bit laggier than that (and a few seconds to start). VSCode starts slower than Emacs, but once it's running it feels much snappier--on par with Geany, though I still only use it for C#/F#.