[kvark]

I have a feeling that the recent move to OpenGL rendering for Sublime was a mistake. I know, we did with Firefox and WebRender as well. And yet, when compiling a heavy project on a modern machine, I can scroll fine in Firefox, but Sublime chugs, becoming unusable. For Sublime, it should be assumed that some code is compiling all the time!

[galfarragem]

That's exactly why I still use Sublime3 on my 10 year old, Win7 laptop. Sublime3 works like a charm. If I didn't mind a "slow" tool, I would use VScode instead.

[ben-schaaf]

OpenGL rendering is only enabled by default on macOS. Perhaps you don't have it enabled?

[kvark]

Interesting! I’ll try force-enabling it and report back. I don’t recall sublime-3 chugging as much, fwiw.

[kyrra]

What did it use prior to opengl? Is there a blog o anything that talks about that move?

[ben-schaaf]

We still use Skia for software rendering, OpenGL is only enabled by default on macOS. I've written about the OpenGL implementation here: https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...

[rapsey]

Skia

[pier25]

Was that in ST3 or a previous ST4 version?

[rapsey]

I am quite sure ST3 and down was skia. What ST4 is Indo not know.