From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reading huge files
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:27:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur6u2hbjm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lkkbjpp7.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Mathias Dahl on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:39:16 +0100)
> From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:39:16 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > If this is a 32-bit machine, then the Lisp integer overflows at
> > 256MB. If that's a 64-bit machine, then you don't need any tricks
> > to edit 700MB files.
>
> Okay. Then I probably never scrolled that far when I tested :)
If you never scrolled past 256MB, then you indeed wouldn't notice.
> I guess
> the head + tail trick would work though, I suspect those tools does
> not have this limitation.
Yes, that should work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-10 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 22:17 Reading huge files Leonid Grinberg
2007-01-09 15:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-09 22:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-11 6:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.2957.1168497037.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-11 6:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2912.1168380222.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-09 23:29 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 0:14 ` Leonid Grinberg
[not found] ` <mailman.2922.1168388054.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 0:23 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2923.1168402283.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 7:39 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2938.1168460877.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 22:33 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-01-11 5:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-11 9:49 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-11 18:06 ` Markus Triska
2007-01-12 8:36 ` Mathias Dahl
[not found] ` <mailman.2897.1168356311.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-09 20:42 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-01-09 20:42 ` Andreas Roehler
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