@NOTimothyLottes So each line is 63 spaces followed by a \n, and those 63 spaces get replaced by printable characters dynamically? I have long dreamed of a text format with a fixed 128 byte line width, and cache line size is gradually switching over from 64 to 128

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• URL: https://x.com/bmcnett/status/1857815519166112244
• Author: bmcnett (@bmcnett)
• Posted: 2024-11-16 15:58:30

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@NOTimothyLottes

So each line is 63 spaces followed by a \n, and those 63 spaces get replaced by printable characters dynamically? I have long dreamed of a text format with a fixed 128 byte line width, and cache line size is gradually switching over from 64 to 128

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@bmcnett

Yes fixed character[63]=‘\n’, string fills until then or spaces out. I did 128-char once, but still sometimes use small VGA resolutions. Also written a source editor a few times with this fixed line size, makes for a very simple implementation …

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@NOTimothyLottes

Variable line width ASCII text files made a lot of sense when storage was 100KB or 100MB or 100GB, but now that it’s in the terabytes, why even bother

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@bmcnett

That line of thinking is universal solution to most self-inflicted problems of the modern era.

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