[LLVMdev] Re: Autoconf

[Brian R. Gaeke]

> > 1a) In lib/Bytecode/Reader we use mmap to read in bytecode files and archives.
> > Certainly it would be trivial to rework this to fall back on mmap if
> > read/write is not possible (in one case it already does this, if we are
> > reading from stdin, which you can't mmap anyway.)
> 
> As Brian said, we already have the fallback path in here for when mmap
> isn't available.  mmap is a performance optimization though, read and
> write should never fail.

Whoops. Thanks for correcting my thinko. "...to fall back on *read/write*
if *mmap* is not possible..." is what I meant to say above.

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