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Re: PATCH: fail to improve psymtab memory consumption


cgf wrote:

: [...]  FWIW, Cygwin's mmap is not 100% compliant with UNIX.  [...]

Right, but for the use which dberlin has in mind (vanilla mapping of
plain file pages into memory), Cygwin's implementation has been quite
satisfactory in other projects.  Is even this vanilla use of mmap
controversial among modern UNIX boxes?

: We ran into problems when gcc decided to use mmap more heavily.
: [...]

(Yeah, but they do more clever things with mmap to support their
internal garbage collection scheme.)


- FChE
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