Re: Poor Performance w/ Long Files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:12:54 -0400
> 
> I work with many large files (+10,000,000 ASCII characters) at work
> and I've noticed that Emacs does extremely poorly with those files.  I
> have taken to opening them up in something like Notepad++ to look at
> them and editing the programs that operate on them in Emacs.  I'd love
> to be able to just stick with Emacs.
> 
> Is there something that I just haven't set yet or does Emacs have
> trouble with large files?

What file? is there a way to get hold of an example?

And what version of Emacs?

FWIW, I habitually need to edit 20-60MB files, and I didn't notice any
significant slowdown.  That was with Emacs 23.1.