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Efficiency

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#3 opened on Nov 1, 2025

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Description

Efficiency of the editor is based in arrays, but there are a lot fast ways like gap buffers, but adding it would require really big changes, so i do not plan in make these any soon.

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Research direction
Compare the current array based implementation with gap buffer approach for text editing, focusing on insertion/deletion performance in the middle of the buffer.
Tech stack
c
Domain
tooling
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Research
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Mostly clear
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C programmingData structures
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50