Based on the original research paper
A study of the rope data structure and comparitive analysis aginst the traditional string implementation. An attempt to understand the data structure itself(its variations) and the optimizations it offers. To create a benchmark and collect data for visual representation for fun and because its cool.
$ make
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$ gcc -g rope.c rope_test.c -o rope.out
On running the program with t8.shakespear.txt the whole file traversal took 0.420s average compared to cat 0.200s.