Why are modern computers still having trouble with editing large-ish (20-50MB) text files?
it is the limitations of the software not your computer(usually). if you want to push 1000 balloons up a chimney they still need to go one at a time, more cores and ram = more chimneys. but if you have 100,000,000 balloons it will always bottleneck while the program tries to sort the next lot of …
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it is the limitations of the software not your computer(usually). if you want to push 1000 balloons up a chimney they still need to go one at a time, more cores and ram = more chimneys. but if you have 100,000,000 balloons it will always bottleneck while the program tries to sort the next lot of data so the balloons appear in the correct order. also that is a HUGE text file. EDIT: other things may also be at play like memory leaks and cpu load before you even try.
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Key Concepts: Balloons, limitations, software
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it is the limitations of the software not your computer(usually). if you want to push 1000 balloons up a chimney they still need to go one at a time, more cores and ram = more chimneys. but if you have 100,000,000 balloons it will always bottleneck…
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