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0 pointsdiziet3y ago0 comments

Will it be native Sublime Text fast? Not on electron?

I tried using VScode and Atom. Both were noticeably slow compared to sublime text. I can do silly, bad practice things like open a 50 meg log file in sublime and search for simple regex in the editor. Electron based editors stall and potentially crash.

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ghshephard3y ago

50 Megabytes? That's tiny I would hope in 2022 that any text editor can handle a 50 megabyte file.

I routinely (like every day) open 500 megabyte files in SublimeText, and just checked to make sure that it can handle 1.5 Gigabyte files without much difficulty (it can).

Admittedly - once we get into the 5+ Gigabyte file size, startup times become annoying enough that I usually switch over to vim.

So, thank you for bringing this up as an important requirement for modern text editors - they should be able to open up multi-gigabyte text files without even breathing hard.

dizietOP3y ago

I hear you, but atom and vscode are noticeably slower at interacting and searching even at those small file sizes. So we're in violent agreement here!

iamnbutler3y ago

I may be biased, but at least sublime fast, hopefully much faster! Moving to Zed felt like going from a 30fps to 144fps.

You should be able to open stupidly big files and shouldn't experience much to any lag. Nathan has a demo he likes to give opening one one of those huge json files and searching, using multiple cursors, etc. It is pretty cool to watch.

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