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STKFLT | 4 months ago

High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).

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adastra22|4 months ago

This is one of those things that make me question whether I experience the world fundamentally differently than many of you.

I have never, ever felt “latency” in editor UI. Any editor UI. It’s editing text for Pete’s sake. I can only type so fast, or read so fast.

sushisource|4 months ago

You probably do. Many people just never notice that. It's not about typing or reading fast either, it's just about how it feels. Typing into something with shitty latency feels like dragging my fingernails across a chalkboard.

It's the same with high dpi monitors. Some people (me included) are driven absolutely insane by the font rendering on low density monitors, and other people don't even notice a difference.

Honestly, consider yourself blessed. One less thing in the world to annoy you.

rglynn|4 months ago

Have you ever used a display running over 60hz refresh rate?

breadwinner|4 months ago

That's an interesting take. For whatever reason, frame rate is not one of my complaints about existing editors such as Emacs, VS Code, etc.

array_key_first|4 months ago

Latency often is for VS Code - that's frame rate. Your editor taking 1s to respond to inputs is not normal.

1718627440|4 months ago

It's expected for editors to have non-perceivable latency. It's just text, how hard can it be.