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I run Emacs outside of the terminal and it's quite fast. There used to be a time where it was considered a resource hog but compared to the monster IDEs we have
by simias 8y ago
I run Emacs outside of the terminal and it's quite fast. There used to be a time where it was considered a resource hog but compared to the monster IDEs we have today it's pretty lightweight. It's not the best editor for dealing with huge files but it does the job (IIRC it used to be a significant limitation back in the 32bit days but not so much on 64bit systems).
- airstrike 8y agoI hear you. To be clear, I'm not saying vim is significantly faster than any other app out there. I'm merely saying VS Code specifically is sluggish in comparison
- licebmi__at__ 8y agoMaybe it was my configuration, but the reason I switched from vim to emacs, was that I was debugging some large log files that made vim choke. I read a comment praising that behavior and I was surprised to see that it was the case, more so as I was in the belief that emacs had a lot of bloat. Which editor would you consider that is better with large files? Not really interested in switching, but really curious.
- simias 8y agoI genuinely don't know, I just noticed that Emacs could be rather sluggish for some operations while dealing with massive files. For all I know all other editors might fare worse.