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Re: Frankenstring
From: Thomas Lotze <thomas@thomas-lotze.de>
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 12:56:47 CEST
Date: Wed Jul 13 2005 - 12:56:47 CEST
Roland Heiber wrote:
> if i did understand what you mean, what about using mmap?
AIUI (and as a little experimenting seems to confirm), you can't
reposition an iterator over an mmap'ed file by seeking. True, you have
both iterating by characters and seeking/telling, but the two
functionalities don't play together.
-- ThomasReceived on Thu Sep 29 16:55:28 2005