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Re: [Freetype] Use of mmap considered harmful
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Juliusz Chroboczek |
Subject: |
Re: [Freetype] Use of mmap considered harmful |
Date: |
06 Apr 2002 16:33:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
>> Failing that, I would like to suggest that the default Linux build
>> of FreeType should not use mmap.
AL> Isn't it an issue for the distro makers rather than for us?
Well, yes, but... just try getting in touch with all of them. If you
change the default and put a note in the README (or INSTALL, or BUILD,
or whatever) that gives the rationale, it will have way more effect
than a month of my harrassing of the distributors.
While I haven't done any benchmarks, I do not believe that using mmap
buys you much. I may be wrong, though, and if so I'm willing to
implement the fallback to stdio myself.
Regards,
Juliusz