• Original PR
• Report of Problem

Report (copy/paste from comment by @DmitriiAbramov):

this change resulted in some issues in one of my builds.
I have a relatively large file that i'm instrumenting with babel-plugin-istanbul(length 141415)

with this limit being raised to 500000 my babel process gets stuck on 100% and never exits.

i was able to track it and the last babel line of code that gets frozen is this https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/packages/babel-generator/src/buffer.js#L43

after that it leaves babel and goes into lodash code (https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/master/trimEnd.js#L32)
where the process gets stuck on string.replace() call that seems to be not able to process such a big string (string length here is 6449484)

reverting this change solves the issue. Is there any way to configure it or can it be reverted?