struct Location size

[Walter Bright]

On 5/8/2023 5:32 PM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> I wouldn't separate out column/line/file at all. Concatenate all the files 
> together in memory and store only an offset into that gigantic array. If an 
> error happens, then and only then go back to extract the details by slicing the 
> filename out of a listing and rescanning it to determine line and column. (You'd 
> probably have an index that does a bit of both, like every new file or every 
> 5000 lines, add an entry to the lookup table. Then when you do hit an error, you 
> just need to scan from the closest point forward instead of the whole thing.)
> 
> If there's no errors, it uses little memory and is fast. If there is an error, 
> the rescanning time is not significant anyway relative to the time to fix the 
> error.

That is indeed a clever idea, thank you.