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> That isn't what my text editor is doing, though. It's doing autocomplete suggestions, linting code as I type... all sorts of things BEFORE the typed characte
by naikrovek 6y ago
> That isn't what my text editor is doing, though. It's doing autocomplete suggestions, linting code as I type... all sorts of things
BEFORE the typed character shows up? Are you sure?
16ms should be an absolute upper bound for a character to show up. Everything else comes after.
- andi999 6y agoBefore the second character is typed...
- spacechild1 6y agoNo. These things should happen concurrently, probably on different threads. If I quickly type “foo“, I don't need to do run autocomplete and code analysis between each character. That would be horrible.