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From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
To: "Don Syme" <dsyme@microsoft.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Memory mapped values
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:32:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15297.65343.166119.577977@hector.lesours> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BCDB2C3F59F5744EBE37C715D66E779C0248F44F@red-msg-04.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

>>>>> "Don" == Don Syme <dsyme@microsoft.com> writes:
    Don> Would it be possible in theory for "input_value" to work by
    Don> memory-mapping the file being read, rather than by
    Don> immediately reading the file?  
[... interesting discussion skipped ....]

Perhaps, but I think that input_value is mostly useful for sequential
byte *streams* (not randomly accessed files) such as TCP/IP sockets.

I hope that input_value will still be able to work on sockets in
future versions of Ocaml.

Regards to all
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-08 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-08 19:24 Don Syme
2001-10-08 19:32 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH [this message]
2001-10-09  7:23 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-10-12 14:42 ` Xavier Leroy

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