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jakear on Dec 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Challenging projects every programmer should try

VSCode uses a JS piece tree, which allows it to be faster* at manipulating large files than Sublime’s native code implementation.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...

*or at least competitive with. I’ve measured it to be faster but I’ve heard others have had different experiences

ben-schaaf on Dec 14, 2019 [–]

From a quick read it's actually pretty close to exactly what Sublime Text does. Source: Worked on that code at sublime recently.

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