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Okay, just as a counterpoint, I opened 2 10,000 line files and tried to do a diff between them in VSCode. It took more than 20 seconds? Yes, it breaks workflow
by antisthenes 3y ago
Okay, just as a counterpoint, I opened 2 10,000 line files and tried to do a diff between them in VSCode. It took more than 20 seconds?
Yes, it breaks workflow and is incredibly slow.
Just like refreshing elements in UI shouldn't take multiple seconds, or a webpage shouldn't take multiple seconds to load on a good connection.
- stracer 3y agoI tried the same in my Linux terminal emulator, and it took 0.2s, when I added colors, 0.3s. That's 100x faster - maybe diff in VSCode means something different than running diff and printing the output? Did you include the time needed to open the files?
- antisthenes 3y agoYes, the files themselves open quite quickly, but I will admit that it's a complicated diff (lots of expected differences), and VSCode is not primarily a diff tool. But also 10k line file should be nothing for a modern PC.