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Subject: Re: NanoX version 0.3 released
From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:25:08 +0100 (BST)

> Consider supporting more than one font pr. file, and mmap()'ing the file
> instead of allocating memory for it, and reading it in. For those of us

But the font is in the server.

> most other things too: the more cases where mmap() can be used over
> malloc()'ing some memory and reading in a file, the better it will
> generally be for the minimum required memory footprint.

The only thing to watch there is that mmap isnt available on all platforms
(eg Linux 8086)


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