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vlovich123
64 days ago
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How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access ...
munmap + signal handling is terrible not least of which that you don’t want to be fucking with the page table in that way as an unmap involves a cross cpu TLB shoot down which is slooow in a “make the entire machine slow” kind of way.
kragen
63 days ago
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That is correct, although my laptop is only four cores.
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