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maxxxxx on Oct 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Text Editor: Data Structures

Sur4e. My response was to the comment that 100MB+ files are most likely not text. Like others I just tried to express that there are plenty of use cases for a text editor that can handle very large files. It's just a very practical thing.

macintux on Oct 2, 2017 [–]

I was consulting on a project the other day; turned out they never rotated their main Apache log file, and after 5 years it's now 32GB.

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