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Emacs, at least in windows, can be surprisingly slow. I think they have fixed some issues with long lines, but those used to be aweful. Also large files can be
by sandos 9y ago
Emacs, at least in windows, can be surprisingly slow. I think they have fixed some issues with long lines, but those used to be aweful. Also large files can be slow. Also, too many packages is a problem, which we might well see in the future for VS code, too, but the javascript runtime is likely orders of magnitude faster than the emacs one, no?
vim, on the other hand, is supposed to be really quick as far as I have heard!
- pjmlp 9y agoI only use Emacs on UNIX systems and it is quite fast. On the old days I was usign XEmacs, which did not had any issue with Windows. Now if someone is running Emacs as cygwin application, then it might be slow I guess, given that everything on cygwin is slower than pure Win32 applications.