> On a performance note, dpkg has support for reading status/available, either > with mmap, or with block reads(apt only uses mmap). My performance testing > showed the difference in speed, with a sufficiently large block size, was just > noise.
i thought the reason apt uses mmap on the packages/sources files is so that it can do fast, random accesses to various pieces of package data. you can't do this with block reads... or am i missing something? randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/
