I was just having a look at the packfile format code, and I
have a suggestion on load-time performance of the code segment.
Currently, you read the file, parse out the various sections,
copy them elsewhere in memory, and byte-swap as necessary.
The overhead of doing this could be quite
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:15:07PM +1000, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
A trick that I've found very useful in the past is to design
the bytecode format so that it can be mmap'ed into a block of
memory, and then executed almost immediately with the minimum
number of fixups. Rather than copying the
At 9:15 PM +1000 10/25/02, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
I was just having a look at the packfile format code, and I
have a suggestion on load-time performance of the code segment.
Currently, you read the file, parse out the various sections,
copy them elsewhere in memory, and byte-swap as necessary.
