Re: Reading huge files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:39:16 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > If this is a 32-bit machine, then the Lisp integer overflows at
> > 256MB.  If that's a 64-bit machine, then you don't need any tricks
> > to edit 700MB files.
> 
> Okay. Then I probably never scrolled that far when I tested :)

If you never scrolled past 256MB, then you indeed wouldn't notice.

> I guess
> the head + tail trick would work though, I suspect those tools does
> not have this limitation.

Yes, that should work.