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> This has some advantages — for example it means that Helix is very responsive and lightweight, because there’s not a lot of heavy rendering work to be doing.

Which text editor is unresponsive because of heavy rendering?? And that's the only potential benefit the author has identified

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I remember pasting a lot of text in vim. And waiting for all of it to be rendered. In helix it's instant. Things could have changed since then. I am talking about no later than 2023

(Neo)vim is usually very fast.

In Neovim at least one reason for why it might be slow is that the particular treesitter implementation for the syntax you're using isn't very optimized?

But it depends a lot on what kind of type you're pasting exactly and your setup.

Vim is also a terminal editor, so there is no difference! The point was about tui vs gui

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