[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> Consider how Unix/Widnows applications rely on reading whole text files
> into memory instead of using proper indexing into files. Applications
> just as itunes and iphoto come to mind where they really should be using
> some form of indexed file to deal with large number of records instead
> of having a flat text file to store all record which needs to be
> rewritten completely whenever you make changes.

if performance is an issue, on Unix I'd use mmap() services in such cases.