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I do from time to time open files of millions of small lines. To this day vim handles it better than emacs. These would be log files.
by lanstin 2y ago
I do from time to time open files of millions of small lines. To this day vim handles it better than emacs. These would be log files.
- HexDecOctBin 2y agoLog files have lines that are long enough, I was thinking more of one/two-character long lines (such that the overhead of malloc bookkeeping would be more than the line size in memory). Regardless, Emacs also stores the data in a single array with a gap in middle (and memcpy is relatively cheap), so what slows it down is probably not the choice of data structure but everything else built around it.
- lanstin 2y agoYeah I have very high limits for paren matching and syntax highlighting so probably those scanners.