# Rope Optimizations, Part 1

DevFeed: [Rope Optimizations, Part 1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rope-optimizations-part-1-13575.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-optimizations-part-1>)

Author: Thorsten Ball, Antonio Scandurra

Published: 2024-11-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Zed Industries - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zed-industries-blog.md>)

Topics: [Data structures](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-structures.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data-structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-structure.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [pairing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pairing.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

## AI overview

This Zed Decoded article explains performance optimizations to Zed's Rope data structure, including faster point translation and a further optimization for indexing tabs. It also introduces a companion video of the pairing session.

## Source excerpt

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio walk through the performance optimizations Antonio when working on Zed's Rope data structure before they then pair on adding more optimizations