I admittedly was comparing it's behavior with regular ol' Notepad... and it has larger [1] files far better. But I never bothered to check to see if it was actually documented as only mapping a portion of the file in to memory... probably because I wasn't load single line 170mil characters long. :)
-sc [1] For values of "large" in the low 10's of MB's. > -----Original Message----- > From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:40 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Hex viewer? > > Maybe it reads the whole thing to build some sort of index, but doesn't keep > the whole file in memory. I've never used N++, but that would seem to fit > with uedit. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 1:51 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Hex viewer? > > Well, now I'm not. > > :) > > -sc > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 1:51 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Hex viewer? > > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Steven M. Caesare > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Yeah, I saw that... but Notepad++ typically does large files without > > > reading them all in to memory... > > > > Hmmm. Are you sure? Every time I've watched it, Notepad++ reads > the > > entire file on open. Bigger files also use proportionally more > memory. The > > discussions on the N++ section of SF seems to agree, saying it's based > on an > > text edit component called "Scintilla" which has to have the entire > thing in > > memory. > > > > -- Ben > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > > software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to > > [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
