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This looks like a fantastic development, but I worry about performance. Atom is already pretty sluggish, I would rather see performance upgrades before new feat
by austenallred 9y ago
This looks like a fantastic development, but I worry about performance. Atom is already pretty sluggish, I would rather see performance upgrades before new features. Maybe they're not correlated.
- netule 9y agoEspecially with the rapid adoption VSCode is seeing. This seems kind of like the wrong move at the wrong time for Atom.
- apetresc 9y agoPerformance has been a key focus of the last few releases. 1.17, the stable release also being released today, has a major jump: http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html
- austenallred 9y agoThanks; I'll upgrade
- brlewis 9y agoHas memory usage also been a focus? I got scared off from exploring Atom a month ago by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14141855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14141855
- apetresc 9y agoI think that guy's just exaggerating, or using a buggy plugin. I'm running Atom 1.16 in Windows right now, 2 panes with ~6 tabs open and it's sitting at around 25 MB of memory. This is with vim-mode and a python autocomplete plugin running.
- rvanmil 9y agoYou must be overlooking the `Helper` processes. Running a clean install of Atom takes about 400MB memory (macOS Sierra).
- molszanski 9y agoI assume this is one of the reasons they decided to add it "natively". Since people are using git/github plugins anyway. Here is the old package: https://atom.io/packages/github https://atom.io/packages/github Here is the work they did to upgrade the performance: https://githubengineering.com/integrating-git-in-atom/ https://githubengineering.com/integrating-git-in-atom/