Am Mittwoch, den 03.01.2007, 09:37 +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
> BTW, anyone mmaping files on Linux for performance reasons should
> be aware that Linus himself doesn't think mmap will have any
> performance improvement over read:
> 
>     http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-40/1661.html

Just a quick and somehow interesting observation: Linus assumes that the
read buffer is page-aligned in this comparison, something you cannot
expect in most higher languages (of course you can arrange that in
libsndfile - did you?). That reminds me that the OS guys live in another
world. Would be interesting which function wins if you compare Unix.read
(which does not care about alignment, and does an extra copy) with
Bigarray.mmap.

Gerd
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