Re: [jed-users] Re: del_region() tremendously slow

[Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/28/2025 1:36 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> On Mon 2025-01-27 (23:21), John E. Davis wrote:
> > Morten Bo Johansen<mbj@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> > > I just happened to stumble into this rather abnormal use case: mark and
> > > delete about two million lines in a file. With del_region(), it takes about
> > > 8 seconds to do so on my oldish computer. With the competition (Emacs), it
> > > happens in the blink of an eye. Why is del_region() so slow?
> I have a similar problem with jed in edt mode (yes, I am an old VMS user).
> Deleting about (only) 100k lines last virtually forever :-}

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