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green7ea 86 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I built a GPU back end for Emacs

I'm also on Emacs and Niri, seems to be a popular combo, and I don't have any performance problem.

At home I'm driving an Ultrawide (3440x1440@75Hz) at scale 1.1.

At work I'm driving two 4k screens at scale 1.2.

I might be less sensitive to latency but it could also be a graphics driver issue or something similar. I'm using Arch with emacs-wayland (pgtk) with a strix halo (all AMD) laptop.

amritananda 86 days ago [–]

It might also just be the case that the hardware you have is good enough that the lag isn't noticable.

You should still be able to notice a spike in CPU usage whenever you force Emacs to redraw the frame by typing into it though.

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