On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:47:05 -0500, Neal Becker wrote
I have 1 more question. What about an archive that uses mmap? This should be very efficient for saving/restoring large structures in binary format. Is this a good idea?
Probably. Maybe someone should try adapting Craig Henderson's memmap library which is in the sandbox. From the docs: A memory mapped file associates the contents of a file with a block of virtual address space of a process. The Win32 platform and POSIX standard provide means of creating and managing memory mapped files, however, the methods for this is different between the two. The intention of the Boost Memory Mapped File is to bridge the compatibility gap here, so that users can write portable code that uses memory mapped files Jeff