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Probably not many. They are too busy developing instead of over obsessing over small performance gains

My cursor lagging is not a small concern. It disrupts the flow between code being re/written and the mental model I'm trying to pour out.

Text input lag is an issue every editor has to deal with, and many go to extreme lengths to optimise it. Electron makes it far more difficult than most editors to fix, and every lag issue opened on VS Code seems to get decent attention, (and patches), and comparisons to Sublime Text.

Seems to be something I'm not alone in caring about.

It's not a small gain for me, it's basically a necessity for keeping RAM low enough. I have 16GB on my work machine, and that's barely enough.

Your comment ties in so very well with an above exchange concerning resultant binary sizes. RAM was once $100 for a MB, I paid $400 for 4MB of RAM.

Shocking, when I look back at it.

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