Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Re: Can VIM load big files quicker?

On 02/01/11 05:52, Wayne Young wrote:
> I have a text file with more than 40,000,000 lines. It takes
> VIM very long time to load. Is there anything I can do to make
> it quicker?

You may want to investigate the common large-file solutions:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1506
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Faster_loading_of_large_files

Depending on your edits, you might have better luck using sed
which will process it as a stream instead of trying to hold the
whole thing in memory. You might also want to read at

:help limits

for limitations you might bump into with files that large.

Additionally, with a file that large, it might be useful (if
you're on *nix or have common *nix-utilities on Win32) to use the
split/csplit commands to chop up your file into manageable bits
to edit subsets of them, and then piece them all back together
with cat.

Hope this helps,

-tim


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