| You might be interested in ewig and immer by Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente: https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig https://github.com/arximboldi/immer See the author instantly opening a ~1GB text file with async loading, paging through, copying/pasting, and undoing/redoing in their prototype “ewig” text editor about 27 minutes into their talk here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q It’s backed by a “vector of vectors” data structure called a relaxed radix balanced tree: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/169879/files/RMTrees.pdf That original paper has seen lots of attention and attempts at performance improvements, such as: https://hypirion.com/musings/thesis https://github.com/hyPiRion/c-rrb |