Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
by nothrabannosir on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:12AM
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> Who cares about the resource difference between EMACS and VS Code in real world practicality?
I literally use different apps on battery vs wall power:
wall: Firefox, Slack, VSCode
battery: Safari, mail, Emacs
The difference is clear as night & day. Mac OS X has a tab in Activity Monitor where you can observe energy impact of different apps, and it consistently reports Electron apps as... psychotic. An order of magnitude (10x) more intensive than their native counterparts.
Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
by baldfat on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:40PM
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But what real world difference besides some battery improvements. They are both fast in terms of responsiveness and I find VS Code to be much easier to customize and get up and running.
I literally use different apps on battery vs wall power:
wall: Firefox, Slack, VSCode
battery: Safari, mail, Emacs
The difference is clear as night & day. Mac OS X has a tab in Activity Monitor where you can observe energy impact of different apps, and it consistently reports Electron apps as... psychotic. An order of magnitude (10x) more intensive than their native counterparts.