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486 points ethanpil | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | 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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0points ◴[25 Jun 25 09:30 UTC] No.44375280[source]▶
For a text editor, yes, absolutely.

As developers, we rotinely need to work with large data sets, may it be gigabytes of logs, csv data, sql dump or what have you.

Not being able to open and edit those files means you cant do your job.

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Geezus_42 ◴[25 Jun 25 11:32 UTC] No.44376056[source]▶
But are you really trying to do that on a Windows Server? I feel like there are better tools for the job.
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1. delfinom ◴[25 Jun 25 12:56 UTC] No.44376777[source]▶
"Better tools for the job" isn't always "the tool currently bringing in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$". So you live with it.

Sure, maybe by switching to linux you can squeeze out an extra CPU core's worth of performance after you fire your entire staff and replace them with Linux experienced developers, and then rewrite everything to work on Linux.

Or, live with it and make money money money money.

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2. trelane ◴[25 Jun 25 15:49 UTC] No.44378655[source]▶
> make money money money money.

Subject, of course, to Microsoft allowing you to continue to use their software.