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by pizza234 1552 days ago
> VSCode, an app that makes a herculean effort to mitigate the latency and performance problems that Electron apps usually have.

Can you point to the parts of the program (source) that implement such optimizations? I'm curious, in particular, about how other editors solve the performance problems.

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Large parts of VSCode is implemented in C++ and running webassembly to avoid the problems with electron. An electron app that doesn't have parts in webassembly can't be as good as VSCode.
Can you point to such files in the VSC repository? The `src` directory doesn't contain any.