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If we had all the utilities artificially limited to lines of fixed length, they would become almost trivial to write and offer no advantages over existing implementations.
I have several hundred million bytes of memory in my machine and I should be able to use it all when I need to, but only as much as necessary; sure, pushing
LINE_MAX up to several million may be less restrictive, but then with fixed-length buffers that memory is wasted when processing smaller files.
In other words, Anonix principles exploit the full capabilities of the hardware in an as-needed fashion.