Does SIZE matter or.... How BIG is BIG?

[jbrannic]

I may need to compare 2 TEXT files that are rather large > 2 Gb each.

Can this tool handle it? What are the known limitations?

[psguru]

I wouldn't do it -- EDPro will need more memory than 32-bit Windows can provide (which is limited to 2GB for applications).

[jbrannic]

I saw that one of the items fixed in recent version of ExamDiff Pro was the ability to handle large files. What was that fix about?

[psguru]

That was about properly showing large file sizes in directory comparison views.

The only way to compare such large files is to treat them as binary -- EDPro will just report whether files are different. There's no way to large such files in memory for displaying the differences.