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Open Large Files With Good Performance in Vim (www.baeldung.com)
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[–] jasory@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I just did this with default configuration nano on a i5-2520m. My file was 185MB, and it took about 2s for the worst case search (a substring that doesn't exist) and about 2s write out the edits. Is VIM just bad at handling large files?