Nitter thread from Julio Merino on application responsiveness in early 2000’s Windows computers versus modern Windows computers. Videos available in linked thread.
Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is.
Now look at opening the same apps on Windows 11 on a Surface Go 2 (quad-core i5 processor at 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD). Everything is super sluggish.
For those thinking that the comparison was unfair, here is Windows 2000 on the same 600MHz machine. Both are from the same year, 1999. Note how the immediacy is still exactly the same and hadn’t been ruined yet.
Not sublime, as I never touch anything apple, and can’t remember if startup is different, but UltraEdit was one of the ones I compared it to for opening larger files (not sure any others can handle 200gb files well, but it (EmEditor) is already faster for 1 GB)
Good to know, because UltraEdit has been my goto editor for large files so far. Especially large “single line” files (length delimited data files for example). So I probably don’t need to look for an alternative then.
Btw Sublime is cross platform. Even the license is cross platform. Buy once and use on every Windows, Linux and Mac machine you use. I find it much much snappier than VScode. But for large files it can’t beat UE (and therefore emeditor). But for most editing tasks the UX beats the rest, IMO.
Ah, didn’t know about sublime being cross platform.
But between EmEditor for text, the opposite end of speed (jetbrain IDEs) for coding, and vs code when I just want to look at a single file, I’m pretty okay ;)
Oh and I realized my other comment was ambiguous, EE was faster than UE for huge files.
Have you tried Geany, by any chance? I recall it being pretty quick back in the days of single-core machines being the norm, but I’m curious how it stacks up now in terms of snappiness.
In dealing with large files or in general?