Re: [Feature Request] Some ideas on 'mmap'

[Nala Ginrut]

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 21:57 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 30 April 2013 21:49, Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> wrote:
> > If I use bytevector instead, it means I have to read all the content
> > from a file first. I don't think it's the same with mmap in POSIX.
> > mmap is used for very large data I/O, if we decide to read them all, we
> > lose the game.
> > mmap does lazy disk I/O automatically for the file.
> >
> 
> With the pointer that mmap returns you can pointer->bytevector.  This
> will not read any of the file.

Ah~nice! That's the critical hint to reduce the work.
Yes, after mmap, we don't need other things anymore.
But I still recommend that store 'size' & 'flags', which need a new
record-type and to write some helper functions, but very less code.

What other guys think?

And I'm amazing by the cool of Guile, again. ;-P
Thanks!