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by jolmg 2253 days ago
Yeah, I wasn't expecting it not to write the whole 10GB. I don't think optimizing to write just the changes is worth it. Probably no editor has done something like that. I mean if the user inserts or deletes near the beginning of the file, there's no other choice but to write the whole thing to shift the content, anyways. It's just not worth the additional complexity to minimize the writes.