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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by Pharylon on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:15PM (#13941133)
Why should he compare it to Word? Was it a cloud-based product that synced all files between multiple machines of radically different form-factors from PCs to phones? No?

Google Docs uses the Internet, so did anything on an old modem. Word didn't (especially 20 years ago).

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by throwaway2048 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:25PM (#13942594)
So word processors have to be slow to use the network?

I'm not sure your arguement makes any sense.

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