Comment by TheRealPomax
3 days ago
What text editor do you use where loading a large text file doesn't put that entire text file in memory? In a world where even sub-$100 devices have gigabytes of memory, this doesn't seem even remotely problematic.
3 days ago
What text editor do you use where loading a large text file doesn't put that entire text file in memory? In a world where even sub-$100 devices have gigabytes of memory, this doesn't seem even remotely problematic.
those gigabytes of memory on sub-$100 devices are usually occupied by other apps taking the same careless approach to memory, so it's very problematic
Devices with lots of ram can fit huge files, devices with very little ram can still fit very large, but not gigabytes-huge files. You're not going to fire up VS Code on pi 2 and load a 5GB log file, but you are going to fire up a simpler editor and open a 100MB log file. So as long as you can fit files that make sense for your device in memory, so why would "it loads files into memory" be a problem?
You're just making up numbers to fit the conclusion. For example, the only alternative is either a 5G or 100M file. But in reality, just like you have many tabs in a browser, each eating their 100M away, you'll be opening multiple log files. So those cool sounding "several gigs" is actually very constrained, for example: 3G is "several gigs", but on Windows you will be almost always memory-constrained with a few browsers running (web, chat, etc) and you won't have much to open a few of those 100M log files
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