[Development] qsizetype and classes working with QStrings or QList

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

El mié., 26 ago. 2020 16:59, Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com> escribió:

> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Ville
> Voutilainen
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:08 AM
> To: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io>
> Cc: Qt development mailing list <development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Development] qsizetype and classes working with QStrings or
> QList
>
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 09:39, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
> > > QtGui:
> > > * QTextCursor
> > > * QTextDocument (find offset, character{At,Count})
> > > * QTextLayout
> > > * QValidator and subclasses (validate offset)
> >
> > These here are questionable. Editing a text file with more than 2G
> characters? Sounds unlikely.
>
> Disagree here.  There is good reason many in my industry (Electronic
> design automation) use the Scintilla editor widget inside Qt apps.
> Specifically to handle extremely large, in both line count and column
> count, files.
>
> Many of the text files we work with, are generated library definitions for
> silicon definitions.  A 5+ gb file is not uncommon.  Or files with a truth
> table definition with 5000-1000 columns.  I kid you not.
>
> Its one thing to not handle it, and say "too big to open" its another to
> attempt to and crash because the internal integers cant handle it.
>
> Scintilla handles these massive files relatively easily.
>

Yes, this files terms to be huge and are a valid case after all.

>
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