Re: objrmap and vmtruncate

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:10:54 -0700


On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:38:37AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> where the list of address_ranges is sorted by start address. This is
> intended to make use of the real-world case that many things (like shared
> libs) map the same exact address ranges over and over again (ie something
> like 3 ranges, but hundreds or thousands of mappings).

I'd have to see an empirical demonstration or some previously published
analysis (or previously published empirical demonstration) to believe
this does as it should.

Not to slight the originator, but it is a technique without an a priori
time (or possibly space either) guarantee, so the trials are warranted.

I'm overstating the argument because it's hard to make it sound slight;
it's very plausible something like this could resolve the time issue.

-- wli
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