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In article <2115@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <5180@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> hammondr@sunroof.crd.ge.com (Richard A Hammond) writes:
>| Everybody seems to be missing the crucial fact about memory mapped files!
>| They ONLY work for cases where the file size is < virtual address space!!!
>
>  You're right, but in general it doesn't matter. I looked over files on
>about 200 Suns for large files, and the largest single file was under
>100MB. Therefore for most applications there isn't a problem.
>
>  I'm not disagreeing that a problem is not impossible, but it's really
>uncommon. You have to support really large text and database files, but
>the average application never get a large file by 32 bit standards.


Yes, but in most MMU software/hardware designs, the user address space
is NOT 32 bits, but 32 bits - N, where N has been as high as 8.


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