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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dheera on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:11PM (#13941083)
> there's a networked file system > a multi-user collaboration engine > a realtime notification system

None of these apply to a new, unshared document. Those subsystems can be loaded slowly over the following 10 seconds, that's fine. Is it such a hard thing to ask to make the UI responsive within 0.1 s? Like, be able to type stuff and have it appear on the screen without delay?

It's so bad that I often use the basic HTML version of Gmail because it loads in less than 1 second. The normal "AJAX" version loads in 3-4 seconds. And I have a 200 megabit connection. Who wins at getting me my information faster?

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by mercer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:22PM (#13941203)
Over the past year or two Gmail has gotten really slow. I'm not sure what happened, because there are no new features I can think of that would cause this.

It's gotten so bad that I'm considering moving to another provider or using a good old email app again.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by fetbaffe on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:50PM (#13944688)
Outlook.com as well. When it launched, it was blazingly fast. Now it comes with a loading screen and really laggy.

Bloated single page apps is the curse of the modern web.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by ashark on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:02PM (#13946266)
Use the basic HTML version. It's worth the loss of a couple features from regular gmail or inbox for a much snappier UI (even with it fetching full new pages from the server all the time!)
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by mercer on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:09AM (#13947222)
I like my vim-style keyboard shortcuts thought :-/.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by criddell on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:06PM (#13941686)
I've noticed that too! Do you use Inbox? I do and I was thinking about going back to the classic interface to see if it's faster.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dheera on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:47PM (#13942151)
I tried Inbox. I thought for a while that Gmail stars == Inbox pins. When I found out that I was missing out on emails I had previously starred, I quit and went back to Gmail.

Also, Inbox did not show me full e-mails on my Android Wear smartwatch while Gmail did. Also, I couldn't figure out how to set up the filters I needed in Inbox.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by mercer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:52PM (#13942207)
Oh, I tried Inbox but Gmail was nice and fast compared to that pos.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by merrvk on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:06PM (#13943736)
I would recommend Fastmail. Moved over for similar reasons and never looked back
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by smitherfield on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:38PM (#13942745)
I imagine it would be hard for Google to run integration tests if the whole app took 15 seconds to load instead of 3. Not to mention that if there's an error loading part of it, people will complain that they wrote a document but it wasn't saved/shared like they expected.

Google Docs is truly amazing technology for the browser. It's just bringing its model to "native" apps that I have very mixed feelings about.

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