Re: reading in text files
Re: reading in text files
- Subject: Re: reading in text files
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:07:44 -0600
I must have missed part of this thread, but Mac OS-X excels at mapping large
files into virtual memory enabling random access to the file's contents
using the operating system's pager to move page size chunks in and out of
memory as needed. The limit to memory mapped files is ~2Gb at this time.
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