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Re: [PATCH 0/17] Sliding window mmap for packfiles.

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 24, 2006, 08:56 UTC
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Hi,
On 12/23/06, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> This 17 patch series implements my much discussed, but never produced
[snip]
>
> This series also permits accessing packfiles up to 4 GiB in size,
> even on systems which permit only 2 GiB of virtual memory within
> a single process (e.g. Windows and some older UNIXes).  Of course

Just out of curiosity, do you mean that there are some OS running on 32 bits machines which allow 4GiB size of virtual memory within a single process ? If so, could you give an example of such OS ?

thanks
-- 
Francis
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  1. 0/17 Sliding window mmap for packfiles.Shawn O. Pearce, Dec 23, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 23, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceDec 23, 2006
  4. Francis MoreauDec 24, 2006
  5. Shawn PearceDec 24, 2006
  6. Francis MoreauDec 24, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceDec 24, 2006
  8. Andy WhitcroftJan 2, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsDec 24, 2006

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