Any easy way to extract files to memory buffer?

Michelle Long HappyDance321 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 23:40:02 UTC 2019


On Monday, 18 March 2019 at 23:01:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:38:17PM +0000, Michelle Long via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Monday, 18 March 2019 at 21:14:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
>> wrote:
>> > On Monday, 18 March 2019 at 21:09:55 UTC, Michelle Long 
>> > wrote:
>> > > Trying to speed up extracting some files that I first have 
>> > > to extract using the command line to files then read those 
>> > > in...
>> > > 
>> > > Not sure what is taking so long. I imagine windows caches 
>> > > the extraction so maybe it is pointless?
> [...]
>
> Why not just use std.mmfile to memory-map the file into memory 
> directly? Let the OS take care of actually paging in the file 
> data.
>
>
> T

The files are on disk and there is an external program that read 
them and converts them and then writes the converted files to 
disk then my program reads. Ideally the conversion program would 
take memory instead of disk files but it doesn't.




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