On 2009-01-12, Sion Arrowsmith <si...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > In case the cancel didn't get through: > > Sion Arrowsmith <si...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: >>Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote: >>>2GB should easily fit within the process's virtual memory >>>space. >>Assuming you're in a 64bit world. Me, I've only got 2GB of address >>space available to play in -- mmap'ing all of it out of the question. > > And today's moral is: try it before posting. Yeah, I can map a 2GB > file no problem, complete with associated 2GB+ allocated VM. The > addressing is clearly not working how I was expecting it too.
Cool. I'd be very interested to to know how the performance compares to open/read. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I think I am an at overnight sensation right visi.com now!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list