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This is giving me flashbacks to editors of yore; EMACS, Eight MB And Continually Swapping. I remember reading almost the exact same comments on Usenet from the

This is giving me flashbacks to editors of yore; EMACS, Eight MB And Continually Swapping. I remember reading almost the exact same comments on Usenet from the 80s and 90s.

alfiedotwtf 2y ago
Flashbacks? It’s 2024 and Emacs is still single threaded
- miah_ 2y ago
  And it still performs better than vscode.
  - mananaysiempre 2y ago
    That’s not entirely surprising. Emacs’s UI is a character-cell matrix with some toolkit-provided fluff around it; VSCode’s is an arbitrary piece of graphics. One of these is harder than the other. (Not as harder as VSCode is slower, but still a hell of a lot.)
    - alfiedotwtf 2y ago
      I use Emacs in textmode. It's super fast! But I've also never found VS Code slow, and that's with viewing multiple large log files at the same time
- mananaysiempre 2y ago
  It’s also 2024 and you still can’t share JavaScript objects between threads. Do not underestimate the horror that is tracing garbage collection with multiple mutator threads. (Here[1] is Guile maintainer Andy Wingo singing praises to the new, simpler way to do it... in 2023, referring to a research paper from 2008 that he came across a year before that post.) [1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/02/07/whippet-towards-a-new-local-maximum https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/02/07/whippet-towards-a-n...