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Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?



On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> If jed can deal with files that large, sure.  But if it expects to be
> able to load the entire file into memory - as most text editors do -
> stat() will be only the first of its problems.

Old vi was able to work with files larger than available RAM. I wonder
if any modern text editor today can still handle that.

cheers,


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