They don’t say the scenario where that’s happening, though. Unless your editor supports large file editing, a mode where it doesn’t load the whole file into memory, unless it has filesize restrictions that make it just fail, if you throw a large enough file at it, it’s invariably going to use a bunch of memory.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=out.bin bs=1M count=500
500+0 records in
500+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 0.100949 s, 5.2 GB/s
$ vim out.bin
On my system, after it (slowly) finishes opening that file, vim’s using 511MB RSS. I know that vim has some sort of large file editing support, though not how to use it.
On emacs, large file editing support is from the vlf package.
By not optimizing for file size with Crinkler, the executable grows by a factor of 4 and RAM usage shrinks by a factor of 300. This build will probably be made available to people who value 500 MB RAM per running instance more than the 9 kiB of disk space saved (I assume that’s anyone wanting to use it in practice).
They don’t say the scenario where that’s happening, though. Unless your editor supports large file editing, a mode where it doesn’t load the whole file into memory, unless it has filesize restrictions that make it just fail, if you throw a large enough file at it, it’s invariably going to use a bunch of memory.
On my system, after it (slowly) finishes opening that file,
vim’s using 511MB RSS. I know thatvimhas some sort of large file editing support, though not how to use it.On emacs, large file editing support is from the
vlfpackage.Emacs is using 75.3 MB RSS after opening that.
They do, in the linked GitHub issue:
https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/TinyRetroPad/issues/21
Apparently, that’s just sitting idle.
By not optimizing for file size with Crinkler, the executable grows by a factor of 4 and RAM usage shrinks by a factor of 300. This build will probably be made available to people who value 500 MB RAM per running instance more than the 9 kiB of disk space saved (I assume that’s anyone wanting to use it in practice).