From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4bd0144e432da2706f14d20d1535239c@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port? From: Charles Forsyth Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:40:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: fd9b46f4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > that's a good question. i suppose you could argue not since > a plan 9 kernel could get by without demand paging, it's just > one of the kernel's dirty little secrets. it isn't really mmap'd as such: it does a read from a file into memory so (as is usually the case on systems with mmap) it's quicker just to do the read yourself, rather than suffer the page fault too.