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		Cthulhu_ on Nov 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that ru... 99% of files I work with are <1000 lines, so I don't mind. For larger files I will fall back to Vim. The important thing to realize is that text editor performance is less about the technology used and more about the data structures and i/o.

tastyminerals2 on Nov 3, 2020 [–]

This is not an excuse for an editor being claimed "fast". Textadept is written in C and is also very fast but has the exact same issue -- choking on huge files when Vim and others are able to handle it.

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