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Vanilla vim is like compiling - efficient, but with a huge upfront investment. A vim 'distribution is like JITing - you end up at roughly the same spot, but it
by Qwertious 10y ago
Vanilla vim is like compiling - efficient, but with a huge upfront investment. A vim 'distribution is like JITing - you end up at roughly the same spot, but it actually lets you do the thing in the meanwhile.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y agoI think this only works if we allow that JITing is harder to understand and improve, because distributions tend to be opaque.