From: Mac <oonplnhd02@sneakemail.com>
Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:55:57 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <818yxbht63.fsf@kwikemart.springfield.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3hec6hn8r.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
On 20 Jan 2003, Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> Stefan> Lots of trade offs, a fair bit of coding, even more
> Stefan> testing, ... Anybody interested is welcome to tried it
> Stefan> out. My opinion is that maybe it would be nice, but
> Stefan> since the only application I'm aware of is "editing
> Stefan> files between 128MB and 1GB on 32bit systems", I don't
> Stefan> think it's worth the trouble.
>
> Yeah. I share this last point with you. >128MB text files are
> simply weird. And for binary file, a real hex editor (or 'xxd',
> which I just discovered) is a more appropriate tool, or just 'dd'.
Well, it is a weird world. When working with hardware development,
file sizes over 128MB is very common (netlists, sdf-files,
logfiles...), although what you do with these huge files are
limited. Its mainly search and replace (occur, query-replace-regexp
etc).
/mac
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2003-01-09 18:20 ` Reading portions of large files David Kastrup
2003-01-10 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.153.1042230313.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-10 20:51 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-11 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.169.1042278925.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-11 10:42 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-12 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-13 7:40 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-13 7:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-13 7:55 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-13 8:05 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-24 7:55 ` Mac [this message]
2003-01-27 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-10 16:27 ` Eric Pement
2003-01-10 17:16 ` Brendan Halpin
2003-01-10 20:35 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-11 10:25 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-20 12:46 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-09 15:45 Gerald.Jean
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