On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 02:41:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:56:46 +0300
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> > 
> > On 17/08/2023 07:01, JD Smith wrote:
> > > It 
> > > does vaguely remind me of similar scaling with an old line-numbering 
> > > algorithm, where lines were always being counted from the beginning of 
> > > the buffer, so very fast at the front, and very slow near the end.
> 
> Why on earth would someone need to count lines far from the beginning
> of the buffer?  Or have a computer with more than 640KB of memory?

Oh, oh, fond memories of Windows around 3.1 where the available editor
(notepad) wasn't capable of loading the only C header (<windows.h>)
because that one had more than 64K lines...

Cheers
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t