Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids
by jerf on Friday January 13, 2023 @10:20AM
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"If Vim magically tripled the speed at which I'm able to edit text, I doubt it would have a noticeable impact on my overall productivity."
It's an Amdahl's law thing. Even if you drop my typing time down to zero, it wouldn't affect much. That said, multiplying my typing time by 10 would be a hit.
I consider being bottlenecked on my raw ability to type to be a huge red flag. I'm doing something wrong unless I have a very specific reason to be so bottlenecked, like I'm momentarily just doing data entry with no ability to simplify the process. (Unusual, but it does happen; for a micro example, typing out all of some enumeration's value can bottleneck on raw typing speed if there's more than a couple of them and I happen to be able to instantly and correctly name them all.) Must be missing an abstraction or something.
It's an Amdahl's law thing. Even if you drop my typing time down to zero, it wouldn't affect much. That said, multiplying my typing time by 10 would be a hit.
I consider being bottlenecked on my raw ability to type to be a huge red flag. I'm doing something wrong unless I have a very specific reason to be so bottlenecked, like I'm momentarily just doing data entry with no ability to simplify the process. (Unusual, but it does happen; for a micro example, typing out all of some enumeration's value can bottleneck on raw typing speed if there's more than a couple of them and I happen to be able to instantly and correctly name them all.) Must be missing an abstraction or something.