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by Torlan 1477 days ago
"Better rendering performance on macOS, as JetBrains Runtime 17 leverages Metal API"
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"A significant performance improvement allowing faster and smoother IDE operation."

is the more relevant sentence, but they don't make a big deal about it, even though it's likely the single change with the greatest impact in this EAP release.

I care as much about OSX performance as much as JB have about Linux users over the past few years in this regard: not one iota.

In the JetBrains Runtime section of

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/intellij-idea-2022-2...

they don't even mention Linux. I am grateful that this change has been made, but it has been miserable to use without it.