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Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes
I have been working on a hobby project to reimagine the C core of Emacs in Rust. On this journey, I reached the point where I needed some way to represent the text of a buffer. The simplest approach is to just use a large string or array of lines. However these each suffer from poor performance as either the size or…
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2023
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2023 | Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes by celeritascelery | 282 | 106 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Dec 2023 to Oct 2024.
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- celeritascelery · Oct 13, 2024
- shadowgovt · Apr 3, 2024
- d0mine · Dec 27, 2023
