How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory
It's a bit of a roundabout article, given that it's ostensibly talking about the Web version of Photoshop. Basically, Adobe already solved the problem (for decades, now) with a traditional non-web application by using the filesystem. And the new bit here is that Chrome offers a filesystem for web apps to use [1], so from the web app's point of view, it can still use the same essential solution that the native app would.<p>It doesn't really go into the guts of how PS actually manages all that data in much detail. Just "it goes to the filesystem in a smart way."<p>[1] The "origin private file system": <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/articles/file-system-access/#accessing-the-origin-private-file-system" rel="nofollow">https://developer.chrome.com/articles/file-system-access/#ac...</a>