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masklinn on Oct 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes

Pulling data in a text editor to look at it has nothing to do with editing it tho. And actuallly wilfully editing hundred+ megs json by hand seems like a near nonexistent use case indeed.

funcDropShadow on Oct 11, 2023 [–]

The text editor needs to be able to load large without needing x times more memory than the size of the file.

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