Re: [OT]: mmap (Was: Templating System (preview Embperl 2.0))

[Paul J. Lucas]

> This is the quote from "Philip and Alex..." that I was talking about
> earlier. I don't know if its relevant or not:
> 
> They replied "NaviServer uses memory-mapped file I/O on single-processor
> machines but automatically configures itself to use operating system read on
> multi-CPU machines so as to reduce shared memory contention."

        mmap(2) is *supposed* to share memory when read-only which is
        what's beign done for HTML file reads, so I don't understand
        what "contention" there could possibly be.

        Additionally, any OS that doesn't get mmap right is severly
        broken and shouldn't be used.

        - Paul