Except it isn't just the source going over network. It's the data, the response times for operations, etc.
And it isn't just a matter of if your net is fast enough to WORK. It becomes a limiting factor in most cases: the responsiveness of many operations will be limited by network speed, not just local storage IO speed.
Yeah maybe, there's a lot to be said about all this, but this wasn't the original comment of this thread ... :-)
The original comment said that the performance of a desktop application developed in C/C++ would always be superior over a browser based application. To which I responded that VSCode is in fact a browser/JS based app (and some other IDEs are developed in Java rather than C/C++).
So we're having a different discussion now than the original one.
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Except it isn't just the source going over network. It's the data, the response times for operations, etc.
And it isn't just a matter of if your net is fast enough to WORK. It becomes a limiting factor in most cases: the responsiveness of many operations will be limited by network speed, not just local storage IO speed.
Ergo "this is apples to oranges".
Yeah maybe, there's a lot to be said about all this, but this wasn't the original comment of this thread ... :-)
The original comment said that the performance of a desktop application developed in C/C++ would always be superior over a browser based application. To which I responded that VSCode is in fact a browser/JS based app (and some other IDEs are developed in Java rather than C/C++).
So we're having a different discussion now than the original one.