Re: Gap buffer problem?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:07:25 +0200
> Cc: Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> >    
> > https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-reimplementation
> 
> And this article compared to the previous "array of strings" implementation.
> 
> Both editors' data structures (not ropes) seem to have something that 
> can be used like our "newline cache", so if anything I would try to 
> understand whether either has an advantage in that area.

Our newline cache doesn't really help to solve the problems in the
display engine for which it would be good to find an alternative to
gap buffer.  So I wouldn't waste time on thinking how to replace the
newline cache.