On Nov 13, 2008, at 5:07 PM, David Kelly wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:38:08PM +0100, Johan Solve wrote: >> >> Here's an earlier discussion about this, with an authoritative >> answer: >> http://www.listsearch.com/BBEdit/Thread/index.lasso?4878#22517 >> >> At 15.12 -0500 2006-11-12, Rich Siegel wrote: >>> Because of a limitation in the OS, the largest file size we can >>> currently read is 768M when represented as Unicode. Note the >>> qualification; since BBEdit represents files internally as >>> Unicode, a >>> character takes up two bytes, so today's practical limit is 384M on >>> disk (since that'll expand to 768M when represented as Unicode). >>> Working around the limitation is on our to-do list. > > OK, that is not so much a limitation as its a deliberate limit imposed > by the OS to prevent a process from claiming all the system resources.
It's not as simple as raising limits. Some of the APIs BBEdit uses requires the use of Handles, and for reasons out of our control, Handles are currently limited to representing 768M of memory. Working around this limit is still on the to-do list. Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
