At 10:40 PM 5/17/2001 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > > True. But I guess my main issue is still that the behaviour changes
> > > radically based on a hidden configure check (ie. whether mmap is there
> > > or not) and that ensuring a block-by-block read in user space is
> > > inefficient for huge files.
> > >
> >
> >
> > good point... hrrmmm....
> >
> > it seems like this is an option that should be available (somehow), yet
> > I don't really like adding another option to the function, as it
> > requires too much "smarts" on the behalf of the user (at what point does
> > mmap() slow things down instead of speed them up, what is mmap(), etc.)
>
>Well, we do check and only do the mmap() for files larger than the block
>size.
>
> > Perhaps automatic detection could be option? if (filesize > X)
> > blockread else mmap? It seems like the most intuitive way to implement
> > it...
>
>Sounds a bit magical. Why not just a block_readfile() function?
Why is it magical? It's an internal optimization and the developer will
never know.
I wouldn't add another file but make it a bit smarted only to mmap() small
files and use fread() (the C version) for the rest).
Andi
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