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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by rayiner on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:51AM (#13940855)
The web is in just a shameful state. Even with 300 mbps fiber internet most websites are not snappy. As in, pages are so slow to render that I'll start reading, but then lose my place when the page reflows as it continues to load. Or click on the wrong thing because the page reflowed while I was trying to click on something.

As far as I can tell I'm actually CPU-limited, because I noticed no real difference from when I had 50 mbps internet. This is on a quad-core Macbook Pro that boosts up to 3.5 GHz...

Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by quicklyfrozen on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:25PM (#13943275)
It takes a while to source all the ads, and the reflow that leads you to click on the wrong thing (e.g. an ad) is most likely intentional.
Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by monkpit on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:30PM (#13941943)
So you just assume that changing between 50 meg and 300 meg service actually should give you a 6x speed up during browsing? I think that's a very flawed assumption to make. Just because your connection is capable of a certain advertised speed doesn't mean you're getting that speed from any given server as you browse the Internet.
Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by rayiner on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:08PM (#13943747)
No, I'm assuming that because it didn't give me a noticeable speedup that bandwidth isn't the bottleneck. Also, the bottleneck isn't my connection out to the internet because I can get more than the advertised speed any time of day to speedtest.net servers. I suppose the bottleneck could be on the other end, but aren't these sites all hosted on major platforms these days? Like AWS/Google/etc.?