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Feature requests / Memory-mapped files

« on: August 13, 2010, 01:34:22 pm »

But go ahead and implement sfml-mmap if you want

I just might, if there aren't viable cross-platform libs (I saw Boost has something like that, I'll try it out). It's a good thing that SFML is open source.

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Feature requests / Memory-mapped files

« on: August 13, 2010, 09:50:47 am »

I think mmf are related to SFML because it provides a cross-platform API for various OS functions. It's not a question of loading content from files, it's a question of providing a more elegant kind of access to various resources in a monolithic file without having to load all the file into memory (or parse it from one end to another).

mmf functions aren't portable across Windows and Linux so I think such an API might be useful for SFML users.

P.S. - http://burningsmell.org/SDL_mmap/

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Feature requests / Memory-mapped files

« on: August 13, 2010, 12:05:05 am »

Hi there, I'm a SFML user and I was wondering if there will be some support for a cross-platform API for memory-mapped files. As you probably know this technique can help a lot when using a single monolithic file to hold all your application resources, there are many potential advantages, performance-wise.

I'm still new to memory-mapped files so maybe I'm missing something but I think that if it's feasible they are a must. I'll look more into it and let you know if I find anything else.

Thank you.