Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Hugs vs GHC (again)was: Re: Somerandomnewbiequestions

2005-01-15 Thread John Meacham
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:56:03PM +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > Pete Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> of course, [mmap] can only be done on a limited type of file on some > >> architectures, so it should be an optimization under the hood rather > >> than an exposed interface.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Hugs vs GHC (again)was: Re: Somerandomnewbiequestions

2005-01-15 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Pete Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> of course, [mmap] can only be done on a limited type of file on some >> architectures, so it should be an optimization under the hood rather >> than an exposed interface. > > In particular, you have to be careful not to run out of address space on > 32-bit

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Hugs vs GHC (again)was: Re: Somerandomnewbiequestions

2005-01-15 Thread Pete Chown
John Meacham wrote: I'm jumping into this discussion half way through, so my apologies if I mention something that's already been talked about! > of course, [mmap] can only be done on a limited type of file on some > architectures, so it should be an optimization under the hood rather > than an e