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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] ryannathans 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Same reason you need it for your terminal (see kitty terminal). It's surprisingly slow to cpu render text, gpu rendering is more power efficient and far more responsive

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was surprising how gpu accelerated rendering helped read logs better. Niche case, but better was better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Better in what sense?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More readable on my part. The speed at which logs could write to the screen and still be readable was faster for me compared to before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Interesting! I'd like to experience this at some point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Surprisingly slow compared to GPU rendering. But... is it really "surprisingly slow"? If it was some 10mhz machine, then sure... I'd agree with you.

[–] ryannathans 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look at the benchmarks on kitty https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't the benchmark be a good approximation to the real workload? I don't see how the measurements reflect the performance difference in real life usages.

Why would I need 100MiB/s processing as opposed to 20MiB/s processing, when I can only read maybe several lines per second?

[–] ryannathans 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Faster processing means more efficient processing which means less power draw.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2701#issuecomment-911089374

How about keypress latency? Over 3x faster than gnome terminal and 4x faster than alacritty

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Same reason you need it for your terminal

So I don't.