Matthias Clasen wrote: >>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 don't think that works as well here, since there are more complicated data structures, especially ones that get returned to the user (so they definitely need to be duplicated). >>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 ? Yes, you do. pat
