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- Subject: Re: zero-copy read() into Lua string?
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:12:26 +0900
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> I read really big files (~500GB) into Lua strings (for parsing with
> lpeg), and it was annoying to do this without thrashing on systems with
> only 1GB physical memory.
Er, that should be "500MB" ! (so I guess maybe "big file" is more
accurate than "really big file")
-miles
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