reading file contents to an array (newbie)

[Scott David Daniels]

John Lenton wrote:

> PS: use mmap! it's not the '70s any more!
> 
This is hilarious.  I first learned about and used memory-mapped I/O in
the 70s on Tenex systems.  One of our SAIL compiler's great accesses to
speed was that it secretly did all file I/O with memory mapped files.
The system call, or "JSYS" more precisely, was named MMAP.  I think the
odds are at least even that MMAP was _invented_ in the 70s.

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-Scott David Daniels
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