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From: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Early GC'ing
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:36:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819123607.GC6203@siouxsie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130819115138.GA31551@notk.org>

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:51:38PM +0200, Adrien Nader wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013, oliver wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > in a loop I read in a lot of files,
> > from which I just need to collect
> > a small portion of the data.
> > 
> > Right after reading and selecting what I needed,
> > I don't need any of the read file data.
> > The most stuff can just be thrown away.
> > 
> 
> Have you tried using Bigarray.Array1.map_file?
> It should be much faster and allocate pretty much nothing.
> (mmap is awesome)
[...]

I was not aware that mmap-functionality exists in standard OCaml distribution.
I would have expected such a binding in Unix-module, and because it's not there,
not even mentioned that it exists somewhere else, I thought it's not available.

Thanks for the hint. :-)


Ciao,
   Oliver


      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-19 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-18 20:42 oliver
2013-08-18 20:53 ` oliver
2013-08-18 21:14   ` Anthony Tavener
2013-08-18 22:40     ` oliver
2013-08-19  0:20       ` oliver
2013-08-19  6:43         ` Anthony Tavener
2013-08-19 10:34           ` oliver
2013-08-19 11:39           ` Mark Shinwell
2013-08-19 11:51 ` Adrien Nader
2013-08-19 12:36   ` oliver [this message]

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