editors’ speed on opening big files

while playing with different editors (namely vim and sam) I tried to time how long some common editors take to open a big file (~140Mb). here are the results: editor real user sys ed 4.866s 3.440s 3.440s vim 2.086s 0.836s 0.232s nano 16.264s 15.361s 0.172s sam way too long then, for curiosity, I timed less [...]

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