Hello, would like to use vim to edit large files (600mb). Unfortunatelly, it looks like opening such large files even on a Pentium 3.4Ghz with PATA disk takes quite some time (ubuntu, kernel 2.6.22-14). I know that vim creates some internal tree representation of the file, but I wonder if something could be tuned, so that such loading times decrease, even if memory usage would increase.
I tried to open a 767.187.800 bytes file (I created this file by cat- ing all vim src files 100 times ) : time vim -u ./.vimrc --noplugin -c":q" ../all3.c the result is: real 0m17.670s user 0m15.457s sys 0m1.428s the .vimrc contains only set noswapfile I profiled vim, and opening the same file I got the file below.... So the question would be, is it possible to tune sthg. to open faster these files?? Regards Misi below the gprof head XXXXX$ head -40 no_swap Flat profile: Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds. % cumulative self self total time seconds seconds calls s/call s/call name 46.12 1.96 1.96 1 1.96 4.22 readfile 23.53 2.96 1.00 31025600 0.00 0.00 ml_append_int 12.94 3.51 0.55 31025601 0.00 0.00 ml_updatechunk 8.24 3.86 0.35 31361959 0.00 0.00 ml_find_line 4.94 4.07 0.21 31025600 0.00 0.00 ml_append 0.47 4.09 0.02 1876672 0.00 0.00 mf_put 0.47 4.11 0.02 1655954 0.00 0.00 mf_find_hash 0.47 4.13 0.02 1655954 0.00 0.00 mf_get 0.47 4.15 0.02 1 0.02 0.02 ml_delete 0.47 4.17 0.02 ml_setmarked 0.24 4.18 0.01 1876675 0.00 0.00 mf_ins_hash 0.24 4.19 0.01 1655955 0.00 0.00 mf_rem_hash 0.24 4.20 0.01 1655954 0.00 0.00 mf_rem_used 0.24 4.21 0.01 698266 0.00 0.00 ml_add_stack 0.24 4.22 0.01 441920 0.00 0.00 alloc 0.24 4.23 0.01 258689 0.00 0.00 mf_trans_del 0.24 4.24 0.01 258600 0.00 0.00 ml_lineadd 0.24 4.25 0.01 vim_chdirfile 0.00 4.25 0.00 1876674 0.00 0.00 mf_ins_used 0.00 4.25 0.00 453656 0.00 0.00 lalloc 0.00 4.25 0.00 453591 0.00 0.00 vim_free 0.00 4.25 0.00 220720 0.00 0.00 mf_alloc_bhdr 0.00 4.25 0.00 220720 0.00 0.00 mf_free_bhdr 0.00 4.25 0.00 220720 0.00 0.00 mf_new 0.00 4.25 0.00 220720 0.00 0.00 mf_release 0.00 4.25 0.00 219851 0.00 0.00 ml_new_data 0.00 4.25 0.00 11709 0.00 0.00 RealWaitForChar 0.00 4.25 0.00 11709 0.00 0.00 mch_breakcheck --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
