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Algorithms matter. Do you know how Vim inserts text?

It's exponential. It's worse than a shell loop spawning a new echo process every iteration.

http://www.galexander.org/vim_sucks.html




one of my fav performance bugs: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172099

Reported: 2005-03-30, unpatched to this day, because parsing opened files on the fly recursively with O(2^n​) complexity is enough.




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