A sick idea - mmapped file output

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>
>Comparing the mmap() with a stdio-based approach is unfair.  You should
>at least try with direct write() calls.  If the common case is _really_
>short writes, you could go half-way, with a really simple buffering
>scheme rather than stdio (expose the buffer or similar).

My experiments reading/wring huge netlist files for work showed best 
performance was mmap() for reading and write() of "large" chunks 
for writing.  

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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.