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Scrolling text in text editors. Was always buttersmooth on 7 MHz Amiga. Is choppy in many of today's IDEs. I get that IDE does more than a text editor, but it w
by burntoutfire 6y ago
Scrolling text in text editors. Was always buttersmooth on 7 MHz Amiga. Is choppy in many of today's IDEs. I get that IDE does more than a text editor, but it would be great if adding extra features would not compromise existing ones.
- The_Colonel 6y agoSo apples to oranges. Adding features will almost inevitably make software slower. Sometimes the difference is smaller, sometimes larger.
- new2628 6y agoI guess the underlying point is that in the same time period CPU speed has increased thousandfold, so you'd expect that to compensate for the few extra features that were added.
- The_Colonel 6y agoIDEs don't have "extra few features", they have massive amount of functionality added. "extra few features" would fit more to likes of vim.
- rplnt 6y agoBare syntax highlighting in a text editor on a large file. Nothing extra fancy like indexing or analysis. Not an issue 15 years ago, in VS code you can scroll faster than that.
- The_Colonel 6y agoWhich editor did you use? I mean I definitely remember scrolling issues 15 years ago on a large file with syntax highlighting. I used e.g. gedit (linux) and pspad (windows) during that time and both completely froze on larger files.