Optimize typing a single character #1233
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What:
This improves performance of typing a single character by ~2x
Why:
Users complain about performance #577. Also related to this thread
How:
The desired behavior is to (I suppose) yield to the next macrotask in between keyboard actions. We can avoid the initial
wait
. Some quick benchmarking suggested thosewait
calls make up the bulk of the runtime of this function. When there is only 1 action to run, this brings thewait
calls from 2 => 1Checklist:
I don't believe documentation/tests would be required here.