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What is the performance cost of this sort of thing? I suppose it depends on how often it autosaves, but if it's too infrequent you end up loosing work anyway, a
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
What is the performance cost of this sort of thing? I suppose it depends on how often it autosaves, but if it's too infrequent you end up loosing work anyway, and you could imagine it being a problem for files above a certain size.
- kazinator 5y agoProbably 25 years ago now, I've trained myself to habitually use "vim -n" for very large files for which recovery isn't required.
- ectopod 5y agoThe swap file stores edits rather than the whole file. I guess this could be laggy if you were doing global substitutions on a massive log file, say, but I've never had an issue. Vim was written for much slower computers.
- pwdisswordfish0 5y agoWhat's the performance like? Real fuckin' fast. Ever used Vim? I don't and never have used hardware that would be considered especially beefy.