Re: ifile lexing question
"Clemens Fischer" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.ifile.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] writes: > You're missing the point: if ifile doesn't run and use the DB > persistently, then there's no gain from daemonizing it. The whole > point is to modify it so that the db doesn't have to be read from disk > on every invocation. you're right! i have to think about this. seems a mechanism to keep large, mmap(2)ed quantities resident would be needed. which calls for a databank. maybe we should ascertain some facts here: does ifile spend it's time reading/writing the data, converting it to internal format or manipulating it? i wouldn't want to waste efforts if mmap(2) were what's needed and be sufficient. -- clemens