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Re:Text Showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes by KerrAvon on Monday October 09, 2023 @06:45PM (#37826394)
> If a 1mb text document takes up 5mb of ram

Text files are sometimes not that small. It's not that unusual to have a multigigabyte text log, sometimes larger than system RAM on the machine.

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