Streams 0.2.1 beta released

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:05:38PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello David,

Hi!

> Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 4:51:26 PM, you wrote:
> >> Using memory-mapped files provides slight speed improvement because it
> >> excludes the need to move data between OS buffer and application buffer.
> >> Moreover, this may scale better in multi-threading environments without
> >> need to implement special async I/O, although i don't checked this
> >> assumption.
> 
> > There's also the potentially quite significant advantage that with
> > mmapped files you can open up files much larger than the physical
> > memory size.
> 
> you can do the same with regular files

I meant to say that you can read in an array larger than the physical
memory size.  Indeed, you can create arrays larger than the physical
memory plus swap space.  I don't recommend it (except when there's no
swap, perhaps), but you could do it.
-- 
David Roundy