Re: [Freetype] Use of mmap considered harmful

[David Turner]

Hi,

Juliusz Chroboczek a écrit :
> 
> "Pavel Kankovsky" <address@hidden>:
> 
> >> Current stable Linux releases do not support mmap from NTFS.
> 
> PK> NTFS is an *experimental* feature in current stable Linux releases (and
> PK> will probably stay experimental for a while), right?!
> 
> It's rock solid in read-only mode, and a number of distributions will
> automatically insert NTFS partitions in fstab at installation.
> 
> But you're right, officially it's still experimental.
>

I suggest to modify the Unix-specific file in "builds/unix/ftsystem.c"
to use the standard Unix i/o if memory-mapped access fails. I still
_do_ notice a performance difference between direct file and memory-map
on low end machines (including my laptop running Debian :-)

Regards,

- David Turner