From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opening large files (few hundred meg)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:31:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwsptkaqs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6g1esga.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Sven Joachim on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:05:41 +0100)
> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:05:41 +0100
>
> > • How can i increase the limit?
>
> Use a 64-bit system.
Yes, that's the only practical way, sans splitting the file outside of
Emacs.
> > • is there a general solution to work with files (elisp) without
> > actually loading the whole file?
>
> Not really, since visiting a file reads all of it into an Emacs buffer.
The problem is not with the buffer size per se, it's with the fact
that Emacs needs to be able to address each byte of the file's text
with an Emacs integer data type, which is 29 bit wide on 32-bit
machines.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 17:35 opening large files (few hundred meg) Xah Lee
2008-01-28 18:05 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-28 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-28 20:36 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.6652.1201552566.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-28 21:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-29 7:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-29 7:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.6666.1201591238.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-29 9:08 ` Tim X
2008-01-29 16:34 ` Xah Lee
2008-01-29 19:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-29 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6705.1201639469.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-30 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-30 22:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-29 22:10 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-30 17:08 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-31 5:57 ` Tim X
2008-01-31 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 11:25 ` Giacomo Boffi
2008-02-06 1:47 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-01-29 14:52 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-30 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 16:42 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-02-06 16:55 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-01-29 10:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-01-29 15:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-02-06 1:25 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-02-17 16:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-29 16:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.6646.1201548710.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-30 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-30 16:55 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-30 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-31 22:55 ` Ilya Zakharevich
[not found] ` <200801312255.m0VMt701019096@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu>
2008-02-01 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6836.1201863892.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-01 22:26 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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