At 7:23 AM +0100 1/24/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
We certainly could, which I suppose would argue for building in sufficient smarts to the bytecode loader to switch to file reading if an mmap fails. It'll be slower, but working is generally a good thing.Dave Mitchell wrote:On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:21:45PM +0100, Juergen Boemmels wrote:My current idea for the in memory format of the bytecode is this:I would strongly urge any file-based byte-code format to arranged in such a way that it (or most of it) can simply be mmap-ed in (RO), analogously to executables.
How many mmap's can $arch have for one program and for all?
Could we hit some limits here, if every module loaded gets (and stays) mmap()ed.
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