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Re: XyScript v0.1.8 is here!




On Wed, Oct 21, 2026, at 16:47, Carl Distefano wrote:

> But I'm not done, yet, with big files, so stay tuned for the next 
> release. 

...

In my testing after these optimizations, navigation in 
> a 4 GB (that's GIGAbyte) UTF-8 file proved to be effortless. Ideally, 
> I'd like XyScript to be able to open and edit text files of any size, 
> limited only by availabl memory. I feel I'm a step closer to that ideal.

Of course I had to try out Britannica in Emacs and it performs equally well, at least on my desktop
computer with 32GB of memory.  But a 4 GB file ... that's super impressive.  Pretty soon xyscript is
going to be able to make my morning coffee, at the rate you're going.

Bob Newell
Honolulu