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willvarfar
on Dec 27, 2011
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An experiment: Shared memory vs. files
Mmapped files are typically quicker than lots of fseeking and read()ing and write()ing because they avoid the non-trivial syscall overhead. This has been a very big driver in the adoption of mmapped files, even those not backed by disk.
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