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Hmm, I found Zed to consume battery less than VScode on my M1 MBP. It's ~100 vs ~200 12h power consumption on average according to Activity Monitor. Do you compare it to VSCode?

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Yes VSCode uses far less power than Zed on my machine. I believe it is probably related to these issues:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21146 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8043

It's unlikely that anyone will see this but I tried using Zed again after not using it for a while and the power draw is significantly lower! So I don't think it is related to those issues after all. I don't see much of a difference between Zed and VSCode in the amount of energy they use, but Zed is noticeably snappier (and not owned by MSFT)

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