At 04:37 PM 1/16/00 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >"Kirill 'Big K' Katsnelson" <kkm(a)dtmx.com&gt; writes: > >> A question: does mmap gives any performance benefits over read when >> loading the dump file? > >Well, mmap() allows you to read only the parts of the file you're >interested in. If call with MMAP_SHARED, such memory doesn't need >additional space on swap either. I was also going to ask Olivier - is it possible to just tack xemacs.dmp onto the end of the xemacs executable? Then you wouldn't have to care about installation directory or copying two files around. I think the current NT unexec does something morally equivalent to this.