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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by webkike on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:48PM (#16450641)
JS just isn't a great language for text manipulation. Even if you ignore that it is a pretty slow language.
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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by z3t4 on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:08PM (#16450735)
Most JS engines have very fast rope-like implementations of strings in JavaScript. String operations in modern JS engines are very fast and hard to beat in any language. Updating the text buffer is fast. Displaying it on the screen is the slow part. Anything touching the DOM is slow. But you can use the 2d Canvas instead, which is fast.
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