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I am so much out of sync with this idea that a text editor must be blazingly fast. The latency of processing my input was never an issue for me in text editors unless it was an obvious misbehaviour due to a bug or something. And 120Hz text rendering is a thing that I couldn't care less about.

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Iv'e seen people, and even been one myself, where the screen latency could be a problem for your raw text processing speed. We were well under 25 years old at the time though, using very low-level languages, and after 30 I never really felt that the rendering was ever too slow for me.

With larger projects and more modern code this is simply not an issue, and hasn't been for decades for me at least.

If you are a 10x developer coding assembly, sure?

In software like VSCode the milliseconds stack up fast if you're switching between projects constantly and/or doing any kind of remote development.

There's a huge chasm between VSCode-with-all-kitchen-sinks and 120 Hz. "Never freezes for more than 300ms" is a very valid point on that spectrum, and nowhere near the need for GPU acceleration.

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