On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > read() is not always a winner. A read() call will always have the data > duplicated in memory. Especially with large files, it is more efficient > on the system as a whole to mmap() a 50 MB file rather than allocating Agreed. I meant it was faster on data that I measured, which was <=1Mb. IMHO, read() should be used up to 64Kb. Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html