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ronsoryesterday at 6:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

The fact that we need advanced GPU acceleration for a text editor is concerning.


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jsheardyesterday at 8:39 PM

Such is life when built-in laptop displays are now pushing a billion pixels per second, rendering anything on the CPU adds up fast.

Sublime Text spent over a decade tuning their CPU renderer and it still didn't cut it at high resolutions.

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...

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ianlevesqueyesterday at 7:07 PM

Text editor developers get bored too!