On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:47:12PM -0500, "Jarkko Hietaniemi" wrote:
> > I'm interested, (and I think BKS is still interested) and recently 
> > I started drawing up some structures and header files, but it's
> > essentially writing a standard IO library and that's way out of my
> > league, and hence something I'll
> "spio".

PerlIO the non-abstracted layer.

Maybe you can make it use mmap automatically? :-) Scanning memory blocks
is certainly more efficient than block manipulation/copying/scanning.

mark

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