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From: Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@ens-lyon.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] mmap() and strings
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:50:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041208205042.GD1840@ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041208202428.GA9878@ours.starynkevitch.net>

I wrote:
> > We thought we could use mmap(2), 
> > but there seems to be no easy solution 
> > to mmap() a memory region and treat it as a string in ocaml. 
> 
On 08/12/2004-21:18, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> Use Bigarray-s for that. They can mmap files (on Unix & Linux) and are
> already in Ocaml 3.08
> 
Actually, i had a look at bigarrays, and it's one of the solutions I 
considered. However, I'd like to keep strings as data structure, because 
the operations I have to perform take a string as an argument, and not a 
(char, Bigarray.int8_unsigned_elt, Bigarray.c_layout) Bigarray.Array1.t, 
and it would be a pain to change all these functions (if I change them, 
I'll probably bind mmap() and munmap() directly and call them with 
MAP_ANONYMOUS, but I'd rather not do that).

Thanks,
Julien

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-08 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08 20:04 Julien Cristau
2004-12-08 20:24 ` [Caml-list] " Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2004-12-08 20:50   ` Julien Cristau [this message]
2004-12-09  1:09     ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-12-09  1:42       ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-12-09 10:32         ` David Baelde

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