Re: [Boost-users] iostream large file - performance

[Nat] A good text editor might *not* read the entire file. It probably reads enough to display the first page, plus another couple of bufferloads to anticipate you scrolling forward. From then on, it probably reads more on demand.

And a good text editor probably reads the file as a binary file (using the read() method or something like that). -- Hermann O. Rodrigues