From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA09283; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:44:51 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA09318 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:44:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07730 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:32:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from tourian.nerim.net (tourian.nerim.net [62.4.16.79]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f98JWdr19972 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:32:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hector.lesours (aboukir-101-1-4-bstarynk.adsl.nerim.net [80.65.224.217]) by tourian.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931ABDAA9; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:32:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from basile by hector.lesours with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15qg8N-0003LP-00; Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:32:15 +0200 From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <15297.65343.166119.577977@hector.lesours> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:32:15 +0200 To: "Don Syme" Cc: Subject: [Caml-list] Memory mapped values In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 21.4 (patch 1) "Copyleft" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Don" == Don Syme 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 -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://lesours.starynkevitch.net/ email: basilestarynkevitchnet alias: basiletunesorg 8, rue de la Faïencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr