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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by thsowers on Thursday July 12, 2018 @07:58PM (#17519586)
Really? I have used sublime for years for log files, Atom and other web based editors would just crash. Hard to imagine that JS would be better at handling viewing large text than C++ (which I think the core of Sublime is written in)

Edit: Benchmarks appear to back this up: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

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Re:Microsoft is updating Notepad by nojvek on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:09AM (#17520461)
VScode improved support for handling large files. They don’t even load the whole file in buffer. Load and syntax highlight as you scroll. Pretty smart approach.
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