On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:28 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > 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). Thats true. > >>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. > It would probably be worth pointing this out in the fc-cache man page.
