gracjanpolak:
Hi all,
I just uploaded mmap to hackage:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mmap
The package provides memory mapping abstractions for both POSIX and Windows systems like Vista, Linux and Mac OSX. This library provides a wrapper to mmap(2) or MapViewOfFile, allowing files or devices to be lazily loaded into memory as strict or lazy ByteStrings, ForeignPtrs or even plain Ptrs, using the virtual memory subsystem to do on-demand loading. Modifications are also supported.
Cool. I spent a fair bit of time last year working on getting good performance on unix out of lazy bytestrings with individually mapped chunks. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-mmap-0... Can you talk about the relationship between these two packages? -- Don