> so unless you're focusing your use-case on editing correspondingly huge files, there's no real need to make your implementation more complicated than a single

> so unless you're focusing your use-case on editing correspondingly huge files, there's no real need to make your implementation more complicated than a single array. I think the other major corner case is when you need concurrent, distributed editing (although that's not popular or anything these days), in which case an array is a very poor datastructure.