On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, tom r wrote:
>
> Please excuse a "not necessarily linux" question, but who wants to share
> opinions/experience on the virtues of mmap ing a file as opposed to opening it
> ? I'm about to start work on a project where the local custom is to mmap input
> files and I'm not so sure that's a good idea (the files and 100s of meg). Are
> page faults really that much faster than reads ?
Well, I'm not so sure it really belongs here, but I for one would also
like to hear peoples comments on that one...
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-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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