On Sat 2008-12-27 21:43:53, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> schrieb: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I really wonder whether the mmap() stuff is still needed at all. > > It doesnt seem to be really used anywhere. > > Ups, didn't look hard enough (just scanned the vfs subdir) ;-O > > Okay, there're mainly two mmap()-using places: > > a) cmd.c: compare_files() - it uses the mmap() call directly > (w/o going over mcvfs), and it seems to work on local files > only. wouldn't it make sense to let it run via mcvfs ? > > b) view.c: it tries to mmap() in the file, obviously to let the > kernel do all the loading. > BUT: do we *really* want mmap() here, or just some "get me > that file into memory"()-call (same in cmd.c) ?
I believe the idea is to be able to view parts of huge file without loading them to RAM first. (for really big files, they may not even fit in RAM.) -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
