On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:05 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > So this means that the file format is not endianness- and > > platform-independent, but contains enough information to load it on > > other platforms ? Does the current loader support loading cache files > > from other platforms ? > > > > I guess I should just test that... > > It can't possibly be platform-independent if it's to be mmapped... > otherwise you end up making another copy of the data before you can use > it, which eliminates the whole space savings benefit. Well, you can't use it as C structures, thats true. But if you look at e.g. the GTK+ icon cache or the xdgmime cache formats, it is possible to design e.g. a hashtable in a way which allows it to be directly used out of a platform-neutral mmapped file. > I've tested it on multiple platforms before, but please test it again. > It was designed to work on multiple platforms, by keeping one copy per > platform (all the copies are stored in the same file, but in different > sections). Ah, how does that work ? Do I have to run fc-cache on all platforms I want to have caches for ? Matthias
