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486 points ethanpil | 5 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.692s | source
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anyfoo ◴[25 Jun 25 00:27 UTC] No.44372516[source]▶
Fun. I must admit I don't really know who this is for, but it seems fun.
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tim-- ◴[25 Jun 25 01:06 UTC] No.44372736[source]▶
It'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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_verandaguy ◴[25 Jun 25 01:14 UTC] No.44372789[source]▶
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?

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1. WD-42 ◴[25 Jun 25 01:21 UTC] No.44372820[source]▶
Who cares? It’s fun. Programming can be fun.
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2. anyfoo ◴[25 Jun 25 01:22 UTC] No.44372829[source]▶
To turn this around, you can have fun and ask if something is meaningful or not outside the fun at the same time. If it is, great. If it's not, no harm.
3. _verandaguy ◴[25 Jun 25 01:48 UTC] No.44372966[source]▶
I'm not saying that doing this can't be fun, or even good to learn off of, but when it's touted as a feature or a spec, I do have to ask if it's a legitimate point.

If you build the world's widest bike, that's cool, and I'm happy you had fun doing it, but it's probably not the most useful optimization goal for a bike.

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4. WD-42 ◴[25 Jun 25 03:51 UTC] No.44373496[source]▶
Not a great analogy. This editor is really fast. Speed is important, to a point. But having more of it isn't going to hurt anything. It is super fun to write fast code though.
5. legends2k ◴[25 Jun 25 16:05 UTC] No.44378833[source]▶
I don't think a sentence in a big report page is counted as touting.