Replacement of std.stream

Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 20 12:46:22 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 19 July 2015 at 17:34:27 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
> The documentation of std.mmfile.MmFile makes it an unacceptable 
> replacement for std.stream.  I can't even tell if it's features 
> are missing, or just unintelligible.  It rather looks as if you 
> need to have enough RAM to hold the entire file in memory at 
> once, but I'm not even sure of that.

Documentation improvements are certainly welcome. However, it is 
just a wrapper over the posix functionality for memory mapped 
files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap

No need to store the whole file into RAM, the OS will manage 
paging for you.


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