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I like the idea of emacs, but I notice its warmest advocates often make excuses for its slowness. If an editor doesn’t respond instantly I don’t want to use it.
by leephillips 4y ago
I like the idea of emacs, but I notice its warmest advocates often make excuses for its slowness. If an editor doesn’t respond instantly I don’t want to use it.
- pascal_wizzard 4y agoWell it really depends on what operations you expect to be instant. Basic editing like movement, inserting, etc is instant, but summing from 1 to 100000000000000000000000 is where elisp would show its poor performance.
- hospitalJail 4y agoThis is basically why I don't use intellij. Work pays for everything, I just dont want to wait 10 minutes for an environment to change.
- peterashford 4y agoI use Goland at work - which is intellij. Switching between project environments is about 2 seconds. Cold start is about 5 seconds.
- Icathian 4y agoPeople talk about its slowness, but I've got mine pretty damn kitted out and it's still faster than VSCode, VStudio, and JetBrains products. It's not as fast as vim, I'll admit, though.
- rirze 4y agoRecent releases have greatly improved performance. That is, unless you're talking about launching emacs each time you want to edit a single file, then emacs won't load instantly like vi will.
- tmtvl 4y agoEh, you can run Emacs as a daemon and starting a client is pretty fast.
- velox_neb 4y agoI'm an emacs fan but there's no excuse. It's insane that an editor from the 1970's is perceptibly laggy on the latest Macbook Pro. This is a good article about the problem https://discourse.doomemacs.org/t/why-is-emacs-doom-slow/83/3 https://discourse.doomemacs.org/t/why-is-emacs-doom-slow/83/...
- all2 4y agoIt's still single threaded.
- BeetleB 4y agoUse a vanilla config (i.e. no config), and it's pretty fast.