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Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by oblio on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:49AM (#12699172)
> even if the performance is not noticeable it's a waste of cpu cycles.

If the performance hit is not noticeable, nobody really cares about the waste of CPU cycles. Especially since a text editor uses something like 1/10 the resources a large, complex program uses anyway.

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Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by falcolas on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:08PM (#12702296)
Well, you would care if you're on a battery for any appreciable amount of time.

Some IDEs go as far as to offer low power modes where they throttle external plugins.

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Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by flukus on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:59PM (#12704868)
And when everyone thinks that we end up with the same performance we had 20 years ago on vastly improved hardware.
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