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>> In essence, the file boundaries ought not to make any difference to this process. I find this the strongest counter argument. File boundaries shouldn’t matt
by CraigJPerry 4y ago
>> In essence, the file boundaries ought not to make any difference to this process.
I find this the strongest counter argument. File boundaries shouldn’t matter - but in practice they do.
The ide will give up doing some of its analysis because this is not an optimised use case, the IDE vendors don’t optimise for it. Some IDEs will even give up just simple syntax highlighting when faced with a large file, never mind the fancy line by line annotations.
- dahfizz 4y agoDo you have a feel for how large a file has to be for an IDE to choke on it? My vim setup can open a 13GB file in about ten seconds, with all syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc working. Once the file is open, editing is seamless. Bitbucket is the biggest offender for me. It starts to disable syntax highlighting and context once the file hits about 500KB, which should be trivial to deal with.