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• arjie
  Oh that’s a great test case. I’ve been annoyed by the speed issue too. For a while I had json and Md files bound to Zed because it was faster with highlighting than anything else.But even that takes seconds to start on my M1 Max from cold. So then I just wrote (avec Claude) a viewer app and it turns out computers are so fast you can not only open multi GB JSON files instantly you can even pretty print them so fast the user won’t lose attention.But I just generated those. Moby Dick is a great real-world test case.
• zerr
  That reminded me of how fast/instant Winamp loads the huge directory (recursively), while other players struggle. Scrolling reveals that files are being loaded lazily (obviously), but the most interesting part is that Quick search and Jump to file works immediately.
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  jonplackett
  This reminds me of ‘The Jules Test’. Popularised (hyper locally) by my friend Jules.When renting a flat, simply head straight to the bathroom and flush the toilet. If the toilet flush is good, the flat is fine.
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  keiferski
  And here I thought this was going to be, “do a push up every time you have to look up a word in the dictionary while reading Moby Dick.”
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  miiiiiike
  I use "War and Peace" for this.
• RealityVoid
  A bit amusing. I took Anna Karenina off Gutenberg and used that as test data for some of my flashing algorithms. I called it the "Anna test". I could have used random data, but where's the fun in that? Besides, during dev, structured text showed the kind of error I got much better than random data would have.
• 0gs
  did jesse write this? i presume so but maybe hog bay has an anonymous forum
• Barrin92
  not to pile on the particular software but the example just stuck in my memory, two years ago or so I tried out Logseq for note taking, and I still remember that it put a five page file (not even Moby Dick) into 'read only' mode because apparently at about 1k characters or a few hundred lines of text the app couldn't handle the performance impact, stumbling across discussions like this[1]With the quasi supercomputers we have, that somehow apps that exist to edit and display text crap themselves on ordinary <1mb files is just weird. There should be no trade-offs.[1] https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-unusable-for-long-form-p...
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  hnbad
  You had me at "dick workout".
• gnabgib
  (2022)
• anon
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