Re: default large-file-warning-threshold

[Óscar Fuentes]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

[snip]

> If we were conservative and warned about files larger than 1/8 of
> physical memory, my circa-2011 8-GiB work desktop would warn about
> files larger than 1 GiB, and my circa-2005 512-MiB laptop would warn
> about files larger than 64 MiB, and both numbers sound about right.

The impact of visiting large files is not only about raw byte count.
Depending on Emacs configuration (active major/minor modes, etc)
operating on a large file can be impractical even for a high-end modern
machine.