Re: Regarding my old mmap patch

> Perhaps all this could be moved into a mmap_win32.c then?  I already
> strongly dislike platform.h already because it brings in so many
> includes/defines that a public API shouldn't.

yes, I think so. Or create a file per OS (win32.c, unix.c, ..)

>> Put another way, why not use memory-mapped files on all (or at least 
>> most)
>> platforms?  Unix, Linux, Windows, OS/2, and probably Mac/X, should all
>> support this functionality.  So a compromise might be to wrap the Windows
>> shared-memory APIs to look like Unix.
>
> I have little experience mmapping on *nix but I do understand they are
> different enough that it would probably take more code to wrap it than
> to just maintain separate files with the same APIs.

ah, that remindes me that I can also make a similar patch to use mmap() on 
*nix systems. It also grants a huge performance boost on larger files.

Nuno 


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