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Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up

24 pointsby mpweihertoday at 5:13 PM5 commentsview on HN

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geocartoday at 5:44 PM

It's possible to determine good values automatically: Measure your typing speed.

You can do it in the background with:

https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/emacs-keylogger.html

and periodically update the latency parameters to be just over your natural typing speed.

KallDrexxtoday at 7:21 PM

You know what makes Emacs feel slow?

Corporate EDR BS.

I thought Emacs was terrible to use until I realized it was extremely fast on my home computer. All the pauses that EDR does combined with Emacs mostly single threadedness is a bummer. I still daily drive it now for my IDE at work because it's workflows work better for me than others, but it is such a bummer.

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