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50 million rendered polygons vs one spicy 4.2MB boi (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I have the same problem with XML too. Notepad++ has a plugin that can format a 50MB XML file in a few seconds. But my current client won't allow plugins installed. So I have to use VS Code, which chokes on anything bigger than what I could do myself manually if I was determined.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Time to train an LLM to format XML and hope for the best

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do we need a "don't parse xml with LLM" copypasta?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

L arge  
L regex  
M odel

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Wait, it's all regex?

Always has been

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I don't wish death on anyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I use vim macros. You can do some crazy formatting with it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile, I can open a 1GB file in (stock) vim without any trouble at all.

Formatting is what xmllint is for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Just install python and format it. Then