Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.1 (work1) now available

[Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@...>]

> As long a human operates the text editor, also gap buffers are far
> overkill in modern CPUs. A string copy with a new char inserted per
> keystroke is just fine and nothing the CPU notices. If its WYSIWYG we
> are talking about, you want to concentrate on optimize (re)flowing
> instead, since I can tell from my WYSIWYG coding adventures, most of
> the time is spent there.

But then you hhave Find/Replace, macros, etc. - not all are human 
operations.

Then there is memory/speed tradeoff.

Last month I had to find/replace something in a 200mb text file - did it 
in SciTE and emacs (~22.4). Emacs stayed on 200mb, SciTE went to ~2gb, 
but SciTE finished first (10x faster)

But then if I had to do this for 400mb, Emacs would've finished, SciTE 
would've run out of user space (~3.5gb on Windows 7).

Then I realized that all I needed was sed, instead of doing it through 
the editor.