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  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Yes, text doesn’t take up much space, but decades of text can easily take up a lot of space, especially when you track things like edits.

    Not to mention that this data isn’t in text files. It’s going to be in a database, so the number of records that need to be parsed will impact performance. How big that impact is depends on how they set the database up.