VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by abritinthebay on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:00PM (#13940953)

VS Code is faster than Atom (by... a lot) tho?

Especially with large files, but just in general. Speed is the main reason I can't stay using Atom for more than a few hours. It's awful.

VS Code is snappier than Sublime Text ffs...

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by szatkus on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:38PM (#13941382)

Wait, why? I use Atom on daily basis, don't have very strong machine, but I've never seen performance issues.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by abritinthebay on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:12PM (#13964397)

Compared with Sublime Text (what I used before VS Code) Atom was painfully laggy and slow.

Now if I was coming from a larger, probably Java, IDE? Yeah, I can see that Atom would look great.

Just wasn't for me. Glad you like it tho!

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by 8draco8 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:11PM (#13941077)

VSC is not even close of being as snappy as Sublime Text. Sublime also dominates when opening large files (2GB+) and searching trough them.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by abritinthebay on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:08PM (#13964375)

On my Mac that just wasn't true.

Sublime had the edge in a couple of cases, but when opening large files (esp JS bundles) it crawled. Took over a minute to open one.

Same file in VSCode - maybe a couple of seconds. Maybe.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:07PM (#13941702)

While I occasionally need to open large files like that, they aren't source code files, and I have no problem using a different tool than my main source editor for that.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by stinos on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:31PM (#13941303)

Agreed, except for the domination; true on linux afaik but not on windows: working with the large files is ok but opening them takes ages. VSC is definitely faster there.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by 8draco8 on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:55AM (#13947761)

You are probably right. I've used Sublime only on Mac and Linux. On Windows I was using another great, native application - Notepad++. It was as fast (or maybe even faster) as Sublime on other platforms.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by abritinthebay on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:09PM (#13964380)

My experience on the Mac too. Working with was ok (mostly) not great but ok, but opening was very slow.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by Philipp__ on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:07PM (#13941035)

Nope, it's not snappier than Sublime.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by abritinthebay on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:10PM (#13964389)

shrugs

Is for me. Not by a lot, and not in every case, but overall? Is for me.

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