From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] edit a huge file
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:56:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADSkJJXpK-a7m+yGNu3WJgfONdoKjs99okq3eGNLw7sqbiCVOA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4342e991d3c2498ab0c4b6145311731@coraid.com>
> no, but the whole file is read. additionally, many 32-bit offsets are used.
>
> (cf. Range, Block, Disk, Buffer.cqi Elog, File.ntext, Text, Expand, in acme/dat.h)
>
> i don't think it would be that hard to modify acme to handle large files,
> but you'd have to convince it to not read the entire file preemptively to
> make this a useful feature.
that's not true. it's still useful even with the temporary copy.
and the temporary copy makes sure things aren't changing
out from under acme's feet.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 14:56 UTC|newest]
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2011-08-24 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-24 14:56 ` Russ Cox [this message]
[not found] ` <CADSkJJXpK-a7m+yGNu3WJgfONdoKjs99okq3eGNLw7sqbiCVOA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-08-24 15:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-24 16:29 ` Russ Cox
2011-08-24 14:38 Rudolf Sykora
2011-08-24 14:51 ` Russ Cox
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