July 1, 2001
7:21 p.m.
Tim Peters wrote:
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I remember how some text editors used to boast that they only loaded your text "on demand".
Well, they still do -- fancy editors use fancy data structures, so that, e.g., inserting characters at the start of the file doesn't cause a 50Mb memmove each time.
Yes, but most modern text editors take O(n) time to open the file. There was a time when the more advanced ones did not. Or maybe that was just SGML editors...I can't remember. -- Take a recipe. Leave a recipe. Python Cookbook! http://www.ActiveState.com/pythoncookbook