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

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• geocar 2 hours ago
  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.

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  • IceDane 1 hour ago
    I just chose to use an editor whose very architecture doesn't require nonsense like this so the editor doesn't freeze on me.
• KallDrexx 56 minutes ago
  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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  • dannyobrien 49 minutes ago
    (I think EDR here means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint_detection_and_respons... )
  • matthewbauer 52 minutes ago
    Do you notice this on macOS or Linux?

    I definitely notice an EDR tax on macOS generally, but I haven't noticed Emacs having issues specifically. It's usually certain I/O operations like Git or tarball extraction that become slow.