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As a long time Windows users, I could not understand why anyone would love emacs. It's slow on Windows and locked up often for me. When I switched to Linux on t
by s_c_r 7y ago
As a long time Windows users, I could not understand why anyone would love emacs. It's slow on Windows and locked up often for me. When I switched to Linux on the desktop though, I understood. Input latency in emacs is less than in gnome terminal for me. Never thought I would say that emacs feel snappier than vim, but that seems to be the case in my current setup. Also, I recently discovered magit and now I don't hate using git anymore.
- martincmartin 7y agoEmacs performance in general (not just Windows) has been a complaint forever. Back when Emacs was first launched, and machine memory was measured in megabytes, people joked it stood for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
- rhabarba 7y agoStill waiting for Guile Emacs to solve that.
- JasonFruit 7y agoOf all the problems Guile Emacs might have fixed, performance on Windows is not one I considered.
- rhabarba 7y agoI don't know if it would, but I can imagine that replacing the aging Elisp interpreter would improve the situation on all systems.
- anyfoo 7y agoOnly back then it was true. Now it’s only slow on Windows for some reason (and maybe not universally so, though I don’t use Windows enough to have bothered investigating).
- snazz 7y agoIt's still very slow with a lot of Elisp code (Spacemacs, for instance). Maybe the memory footprint is better than VSCode, but VSCode starts faster and is more responsive than Emacs with a ton of packages.
- fookitty 7y agoWhile that's true, what's not slow on windows except maybe AAA video game titles? e.g. the "right click" on the Windows 10 desktop takes time to show up (even on a high end desktop pc)... just to show a contextual menu.
- varjag 7y agoToday gedit has twice memory footprint of a tricked out Emacs, however.