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		archagon on May 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New dev release of Sublime Text 3 I thought Atom.io might be my new favorite editor... until I needed to open a multi-GB XML file. Sublime handled it without a sweat, and even started loading a different 38GB (!!) XML file concurrently with no issues. (I didn't wait for it to finish loading, however.) Atom.io, on the other hand, balked at a mere 2MB. I've heard that even vim isn't so good at enormous files, so kudos to Sublime for that!

tomschlick on May 5, 2014 [–]

What special place in hell do you live in that opening a 38GB XML file is a thing? I hate opening 1mb xml files so 38GB sounds like a really fun time...

archagon on May 7, 2014 | [–]

StackOverflow data dump. Thought I'd peek inside...

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