[KinoSearch] getting back to mmap

[Simon Wistow]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:57:09PM -0600, Nathan Kurz said:
> All one is doing is stripping out some unnecessary copies and 
> duplication of effort between KinoSearch and the system.  The goal 
> would be to have C structures with elements pointing directly to the 
> system buffers, and to let the system handle all the paging and 
> buffering issues.


As a datum to this you might be interested to read 

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitectNotes

which has some interesting notes on how Varnish, a web proxy, is built 
with regards to techniques like this.



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