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Re:Atom by est on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:48PM (#7310282)
sublime is using opengl to render every glype. Its speed will blow anything out of the water. Open 2MB text will be highlighted and colored in an instant. I wonder how could webkit achieve that.
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Re:Atom by TheZenPsycho on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @11:30PM (#7310409)
My suspicion is sublime's speed has very little to do with its rendering method and a lot more to do with its I/O philosophy. Because, let's be honest, there is no way OpenGL can make loading a 50mb file into memory significantly faster than plain rendering.
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