I have not tried this yet, but sometimes I open really really HUGE logfiles in SE for searches. I have configured SE so that when files are over a certain threshold in size, that line numbering is turned off, as this caused SE to freeze for a long time with HUGE files. I also have line numbers turned off for files with .log extension.
minimap seems to need to read an entire file to work properly. But I wonder if it will also cause a freeze with HUGE files, much in the same way that line numbering did.
Is there a way to turn minimap off based on a size threshold? Have it on for files < XKbytes, but off for larger file sizes?