Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:21:45PM +0100, Juergen Boemmels wrote: > > My current idea for the in memory format of the bytecode is this: > > I would strongly urge any file-based byte-code format to arranged > in such a way that it (or most of it) can simply be mmap-ed in (RO), > analogously to executables. > > This means that a Perl server that relies on a lot of modules, and which > forks for each connection (imagine a Perl-based web server), doesn't > consume acres of swap space just to have an in-memory image per Perl > process, of all the modules.
This might be possible if the byteorder, wordsize, defaultencoding etc. are the same in the file on disk and the host. bye boe -- Juergen Boemmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Physik Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2817 Universitaet Kaiserslautern Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3906 PGP Key fingerprint = 9F 56 54 3D 45 C1 32 6F 23 F6 C7 2F 85 93 DD 47
