EditContext.text can be problematic from performance point of view

[smaug----]

If the modified text becomes long and the JS side accesses .text regularly, maintaining the string may become slow and also use quite a bit memory and cause lots of memory churn.
On IRC @dandclark suggested
"we'll probably want to add an additional getText()/setText() that take a start index and a length or end index."

[johanneswilm]

TPAC 2025:

Ashish
.text attribute might be problematic from the performance point of view.
Smaug
Implementation doesn’t have to have this as a big chunk of memory
Did you test this?
Rohan
Is the concern that the text might occupy memory?
Smaug
Reallocation-based problems
Johannes
.text vs the accessor methods
Rohan
Let’s have both .text and .set/get methods
Johannes
It would be good
Smaug
(agrees)
Johannes
So, the proposal from Dan is to add those two methods
The proposal in the room now is to add them in addition to the current .text so that we do not break anything
Megan
No problem with that
Ashish
We have to explore that
Johannes
Resolutions here may be withdrawn within 2 weeks, tell if you encounter problems
We have a resolution: add this in addition to the current thing