Sounds a bit like the Rope data structure from 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) Al

Sounds a bit like the Rope data structure from 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) Although instead of a list of chunks, a rope is an immutable binary tree of chunks, so more editing operations are efficient, eg insertion or deletion in the middle of the rope. Abseil library contains an open source C++ implementation of a similar structure called a Cord: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/strings/cord.h https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/string...