The current implementation of the hex view dumps the formatted text to a file and loads that file in the editor. This is fine for smaller files, but as size increases there are issues.
@Shanedell did a comparison of sizes of the source file and outputs from the text hex and html hex implementations:
works.jpg - 41,796 bytes (45 KB) on disk
text - 195,402 bytes (197 KB) on disk
html - 196,905 bytes (201 KB) on disk
larger-example.png - 19,663,882 bytes (19.7 MB) on disk
The current implementation of the hex view dumps the formatted text to a file and loads that file in the editor. This is fine for smaller files, but as size increases there are issues.
@Shanedell did a comparison of sizes of the source file and outputs from the text hex and html hex implementations:
works.jpg - 41,796 bytes (45 KB) on disk
larger-example.png - 19,663,882 bytes (19.7 MB) on disk