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Emacs speed was good enough 45 years ago, with modern processors it's just lightning fast. You can have C / Rust / any_lang extensions like RipGrep to boost so
by achempion 6y ago
Emacs speed was good enough 45 years ago, with modern processors it's just lightning fast.
You can have C / Rust / any_lang extensions like RipGrep to boost some intensive workloads as well.
- steveklabnik 6y ago“Eight megs and constantly swapping” isn’t as much of an issue these days, it’s true...
- guerby 6y agoEight megs fit in the L3 cache nowadays :)
- Kaze404 6y agoI don't know if I agree with this. I love Emacs and nothing has convinced me to give up on it yet, but it is a chore to use on large projects. Helm, projectile and the likes always work with passable performance at worst, but opening a jsx file for the first time literally freezes the entire program for 5 seconds. It's really annoying and I've no idea what causes it.
- anthk 6y ago>Emacs speed was good enough 45 years ago Uh, in the age of the 386 and 4MB of RAM, if you had that setup against a 486 an 8MB, you chose between running X and running Emacs. OFC you could run jmacs perfectly.