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> Is the speedup during editing or does it also improve startup time? During editing/usage for sure: it is noticeable. Not that it was slow before but nearly e

> Is the speedup during editing or does it also improve startup time? During editing/usage for sure: it is noticeable. Not that it was slow before but nearly everything now feels really snappy. As for startup I don't know as I rarely relaunch it but I just tried (only for the native-comp branch): time emacs -Q -eval '(kill-emacs)' gives 160 ms. Or launching Emacs with -Q and then calling emacs-init-time gives basically the same (-Q bypasses the config files). Starting with my entire config which is quite beefy takes 1.2s. I could probably speed it up but haven't really looked into optimizing Emacs startup in a while.

darthrupert 5y ago
Emacs has been pretty slow in editing, ever since Visual Code came along to set the bar higher. Good thing that Emacs is back in the game though, that editor has heart.
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- geokon 5y ago
  last I tried VSCode there was a noticeable input lag (keystroke to character on screen). Is there some trick to fix this? I found it incredibly distracting. In Emacs... Magit is instantaneous while orgmode tangle/export is embarrassingly slow - but never a dealbreaker anecdotally eshell has some of the lowest latencies as well https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
  - andai 5y ago
    I switched back from VSCode to Sublime Text (despite enjoying Intellisense) due to how much more responsive the scrolling is in Sublime.
    - nxpnsv 5y ago
      Same here, maybe it’s only in my head, but for me subl is just better.
      - darthrupert 5y ago
        It is massively better in latency than any other editor I've tried. No surprise, since I believe it's C++. Unfortunately sublime's plugin ecosystem isn't very lively.
  - agumonkey 5y ago
    I couldn't even type 2 chars in vscode on a 2nd gen i5. To be fair it's been decades since I've experienced that amount of delay. Thanks I guess
    - stjohnswarts 5y ago
      If you're have a problem with performance in vscode 95/100 times it's memory not cpu bound. Obviously emacs uses less memory than vscode, at least at base configuration.
      - agumonkey 5y ago
        Maybe, it's still incredible to think that memory pressure would create that much latency. And I'm not that picky, I use a hp48 calc (on which lag is almost a feature). I'm just shocked when people say emacs is sluggish while vscode flies.

darthrupert 5y ago

Emacs has been pretty slow in editing, ever since Visual Code came along to set the bar higher. Good thing that Emacs is back in the game though, that editor has heart.

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geokon 5y ago
last I tried VSCode there was a noticeable input lag (keystroke to character on screen). Is there some trick to fix this? I found it incredibly distracting. In Emacs... Magit is instantaneous while orgmode tangle/export is embarrassingly slow - but never a dealbreaker anecdotally eshell has some of the lowest latencies as well https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://danluu.com/term-latency/
- andai 5y ago
  I switched back from VSCode to Sublime Text (despite enjoying Intellisense) due to how much more responsive the scrolling is in Sublime.
  - nxpnsv 5y ago
    Same here, maybe it’s only in my head, but for me subl is just better.
    - darthrupert 5y ago
      It is massively better in latency than any other editor I've tried. No surprise, since I believe it's C++. Unfortunately sublime's plugin ecosystem isn't very lively.
- agumonkey 5y ago
  I couldn't even type 2 chars in vscode on a 2nd gen i5. To be fair it's been decades since I've experienced that amount of delay. Thanks I guess
  - stjohnswarts 5y ago
    If you're have a problem with performance in vscode 95/100 times it's memory not cpu bound. Obviously emacs uses less memory than vscode, at least at base configuration.
    - agumonkey 5y ago
      Maybe, it's still incredible to think that memory pressure would create that much latency. And I'm not that picky, I use a hp48 calc (on which lag is almost a feature). I'm just shocked when people say emacs is sluggish while vscode flies.