Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by pdimitar on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:11AM
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On a beefy (iMac Pro) macOS workstation Emacs 27.2 is often slow at scrolling, which is also admitted in various places -- it has to do with the more pixels, apparently. Regardless of the fact that this station can also play various games at 5K resolution fairly decently...
There are zero excuses for a widely used editor program to lag that badly in 2021, on very strong hardware nonetheless.
One "hack" I found is to have your font not contain emojis. That was literally the only thing that actually helped.
And Emacs itself isn't at fault that LSP does its thing in a synchronous manner in the same main UI thread and makes Emacs super slow. I know that. But I also know that NeoVIM does the same thing asynchronously and doesn't stutter.
Sadly I'll be done with Emacs soon. I like it quite a lot but I'm not seeing any will to make it adequately fast or, at the very least, make it so its main UI thread can't be blocked.
This sends a message to me that the maintainers are using Emacs in a specific way and don't care about how others are using it. Which means that it's time to part ways.
There are zero excuses for a widely used editor program to lag that badly in 2021, on very strong hardware nonetheless.
One "hack" I found is to have your font not contain emojis. That was literally the only thing that actually helped.
And Emacs itself isn't at fault that LSP does its thing in a synchronous manner in the same main UI thread and makes Emacs super slow. I know that. But I also know that NeoVIM does the same thing asynchronously and doesn't stutter.
Sadly I'll be done with Emacs soon. I like it quite a lot but I'm not seeing any will to make it adequately fast or, at the very least, make it so its main UI thread can't be blocked.
This sends a message to me that the maintainers are using Emacs in a specific way and don't care about how others are using it. Which means that it's time to part ways.