Re:BBEdit 14
by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:50PM
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What is the performance cost of this sort of thing? I suppose it depends on how often it autosaves, but if it's too infrequent you end up loosing work anyway, and you could imagine it being a problem for files above a certain size.
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Re:BBEdit 14
by pwdisswordfish0 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:51PM
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What's the performance like? Real fuckin' fast. Ever used Vim? I don't and never have used hardware that would be considered especially beefy.
Probably 25 years ago now, I've trained myself to habitually use "vim -n" for very large files for which recovery isn't required.
The swap file stores edits rather than the whole file. I guess this could be laggy if you were doing global substitutions on a massive log file, say, but I've never had an issue. Vim was written for much slower computers.