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BBEdit can (and always could) read text files significantly larger than RAM without thrashing VM. This has always required a custom text engine, first because i
by KerrAvon 3y ago
BBEdit can (and always could) read text files significantly larger than RAM without thrashing VM. This has always required a custom text engine, first because it was the only way to do that, and more recently I assume it still provides highest performance.
- rvense 3y agoWhen it started, the native text editing on the Mac was limited to 32K chunks! Need anything more, you could start with the raw APIs that lay out a single line of text and do it by hand.