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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by pantalaimon on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:54AM (#17781287)
I just stayed with Mate with Compiz (Ubuntu Mate) and my desktop is still as snappy as it was during Gnome 2 days.

I've recently given KDE Plasma a try and was really impressed by it's speed and smoothness.

I think it shows when your desktop does not rely on interpreted langues so much.

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by Vogtinator on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:57AM (#17781559)
KDE Plasma is written mostly in QML, so JavaScript.
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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by mih on Friday August 17, 2018 @10:14AM (#17782940)
Mostly? Nope, just the UI elements. Much of the heavy lifting is done by KDE framework and Qt libraries (C++).
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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by mcdevilkiller on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:25PM (#17785408)
AFAIK it gets compiled AOT to C++ code. Technically, should be pretty fast out of the box.
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