True, the usefulness is reduced to being a performance optimization in
certain circumstances.
On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
On 6 Mar 2008, at 16:34, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
If you don't mind working with the POSIX APIs (e.g., Unix system
calls), there is mmap(). Unl
On 6 Mar 2008, at 16:34, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
If you don't mind working with the POSIX APIs (e.g., Unix system
calls), there is mmap(). Unlike NData, it lets you specify a
"window" onto the file so that you can control how much of your
address space is mapped to the file at a given time.
On 6 Mar 2008, at 00:13, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I though NSData would handle the access just transparently. Otherwise
that would be good to keep in mind also for files slightly smaller
than 2GB :)
While NSData certainly has
On 06.03.2008, at 01:13, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I though NSData would handle the access just transparently.
Otherwise
that would be good to keep in mind also for files slightly smaller
than 2GB :)
While NSData certain
Try overriding readFromFile:ofType: and other similar messages for unique file
needs.
>Hey guys,
>
>Using the document based skeleton there is the method
>
>- (BOOL)loadDataRepresentation:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)aType
>or
>- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)typeName
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I though NSData would handle the access just transparently. Otherwise
> that would be good to keep in mind also for files slightly smaller
> than 2GB :)
While NSData certainly has the capability to do memory-mapped IO, i
On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
But according to the docs NSData is limited to 2GB.
What I am wondering is... How can one handle files larger than 2GB?
In addition to what has been said, if you can afford to target only
Leopard and only 64-bit Macs, then this limitation do
On 06.03.2008, at 00:22, j o a r wrote:
On Mar 6, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
But according to the docs NSData is limited to 2GB.
What I am wondering is... How can one handle files larger than 2GB?
Override the path / URL based methods from NSDocument instead, and
read the i
On Mar 6, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
But according to the docs NSData is limited to 2GB.
What I am wondering is... How can one handle files larger than 2GB?
Override the path / URL based methods from NSDocument instead, and
read the interesting portions of the files piece-by-p
Hey guys,
Using the document based skeleton there is the method
- (BOOL)loadDataRepresentation:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)aType
or
- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)typeName error:
(NSError **)outError;
that gets called when files get loaded. But according to the d
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