On [[Argentina]] on Firefox on my laptop, typing plain text takes about 380ms per character, assuming I am interpreting the profiling correctly, meaning you can type faster than it can update.

This is predominantly because ve.dm.Surface.prototype.change() calls truncateUndoStack(), which unconditionally sends the "history" event despite there normally being no changes to the redo buffer. The history event causes ResizableNode and RelocatableNode instances to perform several jQuery.css() calls, which apparently are very slow.

I confirmed that disabling truncateUndoStack() using the JS console causes typing to become much faster.

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