On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 03:58, Steven Augart wrote:
The overhead of always using a 64-bit quantity to store a file descriptor and then passing it to the JNI functions would be several times lower than the overhead of those JNI functions having to call PlatformFileDescriptor.getFD().
? That's not what I'm suggesting at all.
Sorry that I misunderstood. I've now read over the whole thread from your original proposal (I'd only read the proposal itself). Until I take the time to download and read the .gz file you referred to in a later post, and until I better familiarize myself with the current state of that code, I'll avoid further comment.
--Steve Augart
-- Steven Augart
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