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Dylan16807 on Dec 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Challenging projects every programmer should try

This is an editor for textual documents. Where did you get a 1GB file?

Laakeri on Dec 15, 2019 [–]

For example a server log file?

Dylan16807 on Dec 15, 2019 | [–]

Not a document and why are you editing it?

anthk on Dec 16, 2019 | | [–]

This. The former should be using awk/perl on that and just operating on the chunks he found, never at the whole file at once.

But, OFC, these new "programmers" can't even figure basic Unix tools. Or performance.

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