GitHub(@github):A code row is a line at a known height. You can compute the whole geometry up front and never have to correct it. Comments don’t have a predictable height. So we stopped forcing one geometry to serve both, and split the document into two independent height domains.

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2026.10.12 18:06

A code row is a line at a known height. You can compute the whole geometry up front and never have to correct it. Comments don’t have a predictable height. So we stopped forcing one geometry to serve both, and split the document into two independent height domains.