mcview doesn't try to read the whole file in memory usually. It could happen though. If the viewer is presenting data which comes from the output of a command i.e. you press F3 on a .tar.gz file and the viewer is in a parse mode (F8). Still in this case data is red in chunks. To bring the whole file in memory you have to press 'End'. This could stall the machine on a really big file. This is a heavy operation also if you try to read from a normal file and not from pipe though memory would not be allocated in the former case.
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