Nathan Rice wrote:
This is precisely the situation mmap was made for :) It has almost the same methods as a file so it should be an easy replacement.<snip>
Only on a 64bit system, and I'm not sure it's even possible there in every case. On a 32bit system, it would be impossible to mmap a 20gb file. You only have 4gb of address space to play with, total.
DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
