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by alfiedotwtf 705 days ago
Flashbacks? It’s 2024 and Emacs is still single threaded
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mananaysiempre 705 days 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-n...

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miah_ 705 days ago
And it still performs better than vscode.
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mananaysiempre 705 days 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.)
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alfiedotwtf 705 days 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
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