From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Poor Performance w/ Long Files Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:18:13 +0300 Message-ID: <831vn7imm2.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250713254 19724 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2009 20:20:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:20:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 19 22:20:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdreD-00020x-RQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:20:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdreC-0002Ka-W5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdrdp-0002J9-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdrdn-0002EA-I9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57276 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdrdn-0002Dk-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:64969) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mdrdm-0007pV-US for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KON00N004G12H00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:20:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.180.85]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KON00E8H4HPU330@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:20:13 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67276 Archived-At: > From: Tim Visher > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:12:54 -0400 > > I work with many large files (+10,000,000 ASCII characters) at work > and I've noticed that Emacs does extremely poorly with those files. I > have taken to opening them up in something like Notepad++ to look at > them and editing the programs that operate on them in Emacs. I'd love > to be able to just stick with Emacs. > > Is there something that I just haven't set yet or does Emacs have > trouble with large files? What file? is there a way to get hold of an example? And what version of Emacs? FWIW, I habitually need to edit 20-60MB files, and I didn't notice any significant slowdown. That was with Emacs 23.1.