Re: non-stop generational modperl config update strategies?

"Cosimo Streppone" <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:36:17 +0200

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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:10:00 +0200, Torsten Förtsch  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 April 2010 16:59:01 Perrin Harkins wrote:
>> In both cases you have the same drawback: it's impossible to read
>> anything from the shared data without copying the data you read into
>> perl variables.
>> [...]
>>
> no, MMapDB creates read-only variables that reference the mmapped block.  
> It manipulates SvPVX directly:
>
> SvPV_set(sv, pointer);
> SvLEN_set(sv, 0);         # this makes sure perl won't try to free() the  
> space
> [...]
> You can then pass around references to that variable and nothing will be
> copied.

Cool!

So, if I understand correctly: using something like Cache::FastMmap
creates copy of your strings/values/... in your process memory.
See the "fc_read" function. Is this correct?

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ROBM/Cache-FastMmap-1.35/Cache-FastMmap-CImpl/CImpl.xs

I guess pretty much anything else works that way, not just Cache::FastMmap.

-- 
Cosimo