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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by lispm on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:56PM (#13941569)
The jokes of GNU Emacs being bloated are from a time when machines with 8MB RAM were modern. The original NeXT computer was introduced in 1988 with 8MB RAM... The Mac II from 1987 started at 1MB, max at 8MB, ... today phones have 2GB RAM.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by sqeaky on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:19PM (#13943854)
I bought a phone with 6GB of RAM. It keeps getting bigger.
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