alt Hacker NewsIt's for people that want to use the Windows Terminal to edit files. The old `edit` command has been unsupported on Windows since 2006, so there was no Microsoft-provided editor that could be used in the command line since then.
It's impressive to see how fast this editor is. https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/408
> By writing SIMD routines specific to newline seeking, we can bump that up [to 125GB/s]
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axpvms • today at 11:41 AM
That's pretty handy. I was having to use bash -c "vi myfile.txt" which was a bit annoying.
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cerved • today at 5:08 AM
Probably more like need to use it. Basically nano for windows
Is... this a meaningful benchmark?
Who's editing files big enough to benefit from 120GBps throughput in any meaningful way on the regular using an interactive editor rather than just pushing it through a script/tool/throwing it into ETL depending on the size and nature of the data?