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Opening Large Files

2008-11-17
2012-11-13
  • Hitokiri Battousai

    Is there a feature for opening large ASCII files (>10MB, maybe even larger like 200MB)?
    It can be an add-on too. I need it for browsing large log files, and ASCII database files.

     
    • Hitokiri Battousai

      I have an idea how to implement this; instead of loading all of the file into the memory, the program will load only the part which is to be viewed. If user changes the viewing position, the program will unload the previous position from the memory and load the newly located position.

      This way it will be slower to browse a large file if user has lots of RAM, but if user has limited amount of RAM it will skyroket the process.

       
      • Benjamin Eason

        Benjamin Eason - 2008-12-04

        While I'm eager for the eventual large file support, I'd be even more appreciative if n++ would simply warn the user before it attempts to load the file into memory when the file size and available system memory are likely to result in a crash or long load time.