From:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id:	<200005082100.XAA11742@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject:	Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.1000508143216.3080C-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "May 8, 2000 02:35:55 pm"
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Date:	Mon, 8 May 2000 23:00:41 +0200 (MET DST)
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > Hey, this means we can support mmap( ..., PROT_READ, ... ),
> > i. e. read-only mmap()!
> 
> In principle, yes.  However, before we put mmap into the library, I think 
> Someone (tm) should look at several GNU packages which use mmap and 
> verify that our minimal implementation will do what those packages 
> expect.  Since the availability of mmap is checked by the configure 
> script by linking a program, and since GNU packages I've seen always 
> prefer to use mmap if it is found, if we put mmap into the library for 
> GCC, we had better made sure it doesn't bite us elsewhere.

Ok, I have hacked together the mmap() function. Do you have any mmap
intensive code to suggest I try it out on?


Right,

							MartinS

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