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David Byram-Wigfield <byram@removethis.cappella.demon.co.uk> wrote:

SNIP
> 
> I could make my 630 slow type by trying to edit large 1.5 M EPS files in
> BBedit of Plain Text.
> 
> The cure was to increase the Get Info memory.
> 
This is easy. BBedit opperates with a fixed memory partition, as do all
Mac Apps. When it is editing a file, it loads the entire file into
memory. As obviously some files will be too large for BBedits memory
partition, there is provision to 'borrow' memory from the system by
means of 'temporary memory' This is memory additional to the memory
allocated to BBedit, the drawback being access is slower than 'ordinary'
application memory. So, by increasing the initial memory allocation, use
of temp memory is eliminated, and speed is increasedl.

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