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There's a cool blog post by the JetBrains guy about text editor latency: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

He implemented a zero latency mode which bypasses many layers in the rendering stack, which apparently makes IntelliJ one of the fastest text editors.

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Having used IntelliJ -- well, it's faster than a lot of other IDEs, but "one of the fastest text editors"? Maybe vim is spoiling me but everything that runs outside of a terminal feels glacial to me.

Yes, as stated in the blog article, the optimizations they made put it in the same ballpark than Vim.

It's probably faster than Vim if you're using a slow terminal emulator.

"The JetBrains guy" ... That's just one guy?

Hah, that's what you get for rephrasing comments. It used to say "the JetBrains guy who added zero latency mode".

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