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by ComodoHacker 3582 days ago
> I loaded a 1.2GB ISO in the demo and it used… 1.2GB of RAM.

And what you expect here? Other editors usually take 2x to 3x of file size.

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For massive text files, this is your friend: http://jujusoft.com/jujuedit/
mmap'd files.
mmap doesn't help much if you do syntax highlighting or other formatting.