[enriquto]

Here you have a list of very famous books with their word counts. Quite a few of them have more than half a million words. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that a text editor is able to handle that size. After all this is a tiny amount of data compared to what has to deal a program that does image or video processing, so there's 0 reason for a text editor to be "laggy" when dealing with just a few megabytes.

https://blog.fostergrant.co.uk/2017/08/03/word-counts-popula...

[weeksie]

Seriously, that’s stupid. You’re collecting outliers. Unpublished writers trying to hawk 400k word novels are for the most part delusional. Every single piece in your list that goes into that territory is something written by an established author.

Though, to be fair, an author organizing a work of that size in a single markdown document has bigger problems than key lag.

[weeksie]

That doesn't exactly make your point.