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But why?

• rpeden 10y ago
  Perhaps because it's a use case that many people use a text editor for. For those people, opening such a file makes for a good test to compare the performance of Atom and VSCode...and Vim, and Emacs, and lots of others. For writing code, I find Atom a bit slower to start up than Code, but generally nice and usable afterward. That's on an 8 core, 32GB of RAM system, though, so Atom could very well be more sluggish for others.
  • ygra 10y ago
    But a text editor to open a file you won't ever edit is maybe also not the best idea. A pure text viewer can use different data structures that don't have to anticipate edits to the text and likely be faster. Or, on the other hand, a text editor trying to optimise the use case where people open large files without editing them (or only editing tiny portions of it), will likely grow a lot more complex.