[bsdubernerd]

Magit is not particularly fast on *nix either. Most of the UI operates on buffers which are prepared infrequently, so the latency doesn't have significant impact. This is a very good UI design for magit itself, since staying within emacs provides bigger benefits in most cases.

However, my own cited example about browsing history and blames is one case where I cannot just stomach the subpar efficiency. Tig also runs git as a subprocess, but every view is truly incremental and you can scroll through any buffer in any view and there's absolutely zero delay. Night and day even when comparing emacs with JIT.

Like for magit, tig has one keystroke shortcuts that make sense (which IMHO is pretty common on good TUI programs) and can perform many git operations directly from the spot you're looking at.

I also consider the visual space usage in tig to be much more efficient as well. Especially the blame view, which I find still wasteful in all modes compared to tig's. I frequently use a customized vc-annotate instead.

Magit hooks also considerably slow down operations on remote files, which can be quite annoying if you don't actively need to use git while editing.

Don't get me wrong - I like magit. But like org-mode, I don't get the glorification it gets.