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this thing blows the Atom editor out of the water in terms of performance

Idem for Sublime Text. Loading large files on Windows is a total disaster with ST. Which is a shame, it's a great editor on all fronts except loading of large (as in > couple of MB) files which is just something I happen to do quite a lot.

Seriously? A 100MB C++ file?

For stress testing, of course! I just replicated a ~25kb file 4096 times.

Isn't there any way to analyze and get some of these speedups back upstream?

I believe Atom are already writing a new backend for their text buffer backend, but that part of the code is unrelated to what VSCode uses. I imagine the very fact that VSCode exists and performs so well will be enough to finally make that work a top priority for the Atom team, but we'll see.