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Re:Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code e... by z3t4 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:02PM (#34328848)
They only supported the ASCII characters and a few sizes/colors that was pre-rendered.
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Re:Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code e... by CyberDildonics on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:42PM (#34333548)
My 486 was able to do arbitrary text rendering without any problem. Text rendering is not expensive by any standard today. The only reason any text editor is slow is exceptionally poor programming or bad multi-threading (which is a little more forgivable).
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