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VSCode is blazing fast on my 5 year old personal laptop. VSCode is frustratingly slow on my M2 work laptop full of corporate nannyware. It’s not VSCode’s fault
by Swizec 3y ago
VSCode is blazing fast on my 5 year old personal laptop. VSCode is frustratingly slow on my M2 work laptop full of corporate nannyware.
It’s not VSCode’s fault ;)
JS-based apps happen to interact terribly with nannyware for some reason. I see it every time I run one of our node services, everything just grinds to a halt while the antivirus freaks out about how dare I run a piece of uncompiled code.
Slack and friends have the same problem. Discord actually runs better in a browser than as a standalone app.
- whizzter 3y agoThis probably needs far more attention than it's given. A half-wild guess here is that because viruses uses various ways to hide themselves the anti-virus software probably scans W^X codepages on changes, so anything JIT compiled (all modern JS engines) will trigger a lot of spurious scans (kinda like how compiling and writing .exe files can grind turnaround times to a halt).
- buzzerbetrayed 3y ago> JS-based apps happen to interact terribly with nannyware for some reason I mean, yeah.. because they're slow and resource intensive. Your comment directly contradicts itself: It IS VSCodes fault. And BTW, it doesn't have anything to do with "nannyware". They slow down on any computer that is under the tiniest load.