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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:50:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] edit a huge file
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> So does acme/sam need to load the whole file into memory?

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.  and you'll probablly have to increase the size
of STACK.

- erik