Re: [PATCH 2/7] Switch git_mmap to use pread.

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Hi,

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Now that Git depends on pread in index-pack its safe to say we can
> also depend on it within the git_mmap emulation we activate when
> NO_MMAP is set.  On most systems pread should be slightly faster
> than an lseek/read/lseek sequence as its one system call vs. three
> system calls.

I don't think it matters much. The _only_ platform we really use NO_MMAP 
(other than for testing) is Windows, and AFAICT it does not have pread(), 
so it is emulated by lseek/read/lseek anyway.

But it's a cleanup, and it deletes more lines than it adds, so Ack from 
me.

Ciao,
Dscho
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