Speaking only for myself, and as a reader of this list for some time, I
might comment that 'large' has meant (mostly) large human targetted document instances, often up to a few megabytes, occasionally ten or more,
seldom more.

I might suggest that the processing environment for many users is a desktop
pc, a server, rarely dedicated hardware.

If serving up webpages the options are there, but in terms of loading
a page in a users browser, anything more than a few hundred K is a bit
of a waste of time, since users get teed off and go elsewhere.

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