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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by criddell on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:30AM (#12557531)
I don't think so. Can a text editor do search and replace on a 100 GB file without a delay? You could construct an index, but that's not going to happen instantaneously either.
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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by 0xcde4c3db on Thursday September 22, 2016 @09:56PM (#12561802)
> Can a text editor do search and replace on a 100 GB file without a delay?

I meant that things like simply scrolling through a few pages or inserting/deleting a single character in the middle of the file shouldn't cause noticeable delays. Doing an operation that spans the entire file is different.

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