From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T06:39:51+09:00
Subject: Re: How to edit a file without loading it all into memory

Err.

Well only one of these textures is open at once right?
If this box is actually capable of running maya well, it's sure to
have more than a few hundred megs of free ram (when maya isn't running
of course ;).

My guess is that you'll get a hefty performance hit for parsing the
files line by line.  The box has memory to spare, so why not just use
it?

Of course if there was a way to memap the file under ruby that would
probably be the best...but I dunno how to do that.

--Kyle