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naikrovek on March 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron al...

> That isn't what my text editor is doing, though. It's doing autocomplete suggestions, linting code as I type... all sorts of things

BEFORE the typed character shows up? Are you sure?

16ms should be an absolute upper bound for a character to show up. Everything else comes after.

andi999 on March 6, 2021 [–]

Before the second character is typed...

spacechild1 on March 6, 2021 | [–]

No. These things should happen concurrently, probably on different threads. If I quickly type “foo“, I don't need to do run autocomplete and code analysis between each character. That would be horrible.

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