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TL;DR of very good while long ;) article:

Use a responsive editor (makes the most difference).

* Use a low-latency keyboard, if possible.

* Choose programs that add global keyboard hooks wisely.

* Turn off unnecessary “image enhancers” in you monitor.

* Enable stacking window manager in your OS (e.g. in Windows 7, 8).

TESTED EDITORS RESULTS, Average latency, ms

    IDEA-zl     11.9
    GVim	19.0
    Gedit	23.9
    Emacs	44.7
    Sublime     52.1
    Atom	90.0
    Netbeans	119.1
    Eclipse	133.6


What is IDEA-zl? (Google turned up nothing)



does that mean IDEA 2017 is zero latency ?


Looks like it:

> So today, after almost 6 months of extensive testing, we are enabling zero latency typing as the default setting in all IntelliJ-based IDEs, including CLion.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2017/01/clion-starts-2017-1...


MacOS: VSCode and iTerm got 17.x ms, Terminal.app is at 7ms.


Note: those are the worst-case timings, power-saving mode in a VirtualBox.

IDEA without the zero-latency mod is 198.8.




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