[Qt-interest] QPlainTextEdit and files larger than 1G

[Arnold Krille]

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 17:51:22 Roland Krause wrote:
> Is there some sort of magic size limit on how large of a file a
> QPlainTextEdit can display.
> I am reading a rather large (~1.8G) file with the following code but after
> pretty much exactly 1000 blocks the application completely stalls. At that
> point memory consumption is about 3.6G res according to "top".

What kind of thing do you want to achieve with 3.6GB text-files read into 
memory at once?

I do understand the need for tables (in .csv or similar) being several gigs. I 
use these myself. But I can't really think of any sane reason to have the full 
file in memory. Let alone any reason to render the full file in a textedit?

Possible solutions:
a) re-think the need to have such big files in a text-editor.
b) load (and process) the file in smaller chunks.

Have fun,

Arnold
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