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> but the "ridiculousness" of this overhead is imaginary. A few weeks ago: VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering https://news.ycomb

• thomasrognon 9y ago
  That was a bug in Chrome (http://crbug.com/361587 http://crbug.com/361587), it's not inherent to the technology. VS Code ended up implementing the logic in JS to work around it.
• nl 9y ago
  As someone who has been hit by every single one of these bugs[1][2][3] but somehow didn't get the VS Code problem I'm not at all convinced that is somehow inherent in using Electron. I don't think I ever had a "IDE causing high CPU load in" problem in Delphi 2, 3, or 5. I did in Delphi 4, and I have in PowerBuilder, Sybase PowerJ (although there were much worse problems with that!), VB6, Eclipse 2, and I'm sure there are some I've missed. Bugs suck, but they happen. [1] http://ridikulouse.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/visual-studio-high-cpu-usage.html http://ridikulouse.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/visual-studio-hig... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369487/speeding-up-tomcat-in-debug-mode-with-eclipse-ide/1373547#1373547 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369487/speeding-up-tomca... [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38601171/intellij-idea-2016-2-high-cpu-usage http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38601171/intellij-idea-20...