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Nice writeup!

Have you tried Sublime Text 3 to open the 20MB file? I have opened 200MB+ textfiles with it without issue.

That's exactly what I tried opening it with. I suspect the issue may have been down to the fact that it was all on a single line.

That said I didn't want to distribute a 20MB file with the application anyway, so the reduction to 3MB is a good choice anyway.

It's probably because of the syntax highlighting, which is fairly slow due to regex. Sublime should have no problems reading it in text mode. more would also work!

Have you tried nofile.io or one of the myriad pomf.se clones?

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