[TxMt] Huge files in Textmate ( ***long*** )

[Sune Foldager]

Richard Vile wrote:

> My interpretation of this console output is that TextMate was trying to
> acquire over a gigabyte of memory with a single request. Not clear
> (a) why this much would be needed for a slightly over 500mb file

Because TextMate uses UCS-2 (or UTF-16) as internal representation, taking
up two bytes per character.

But it's definately fair to say, especially on 'slower' machines (I have a
1GHz G4, 768MB ram), that TextMate currently performs quite poorly on
large files.

-- Sune.