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EDr/editor-books·posted by bob_chen·1 hour agoTutorial

Ten editor-books anti-patterns — how many are you guilty of?

Short version: editor-books needs almost no tuning at small and medium scale — the point where it starts to hurt is much further out than most people assume. Full measurements below.

On trade-offs, my view is this: if nobody on the team owns this area long-term, do not introduce a second mechanism. With two coexistence you first have to work out which one is even in play when things break, and that costs far more than the performance you saved.

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Ddev_zhou·12 minutes ago

I just read the editor-books source — the author actually explains the reasoning in a comment, roughly "so that it degrades into predictable behaviour in extreme cases".

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Aalice_dev·just now

One counter-example: below editor-books 7.4 the semantics of that code are different, so do not copy it verbatim. We got burned in staging and rolled back once.

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Kkite·1 hour ago

We have run this in production for two years without hitting it. That said, we never reached this scale, so our experience is not really evidence here.

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