Re: NSData dataWithContentsOfMappedFile with huge files?

FROM : Cameron Hayne
DATE : Sun Aug 27 08:29:46 2006

On 25-Aug-06, at 4:54 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

> If NSData does a straight contiguous mapping (which it likely has to
> do given its API) the limit is just a little over 2 GiB in size
> (assuming a clean application heap).


Hmm, that makes sense. I guess it was wishful thinking - I was hoping 
that it might do something super-smart behind the scenes such that it 
could cover more than that as long as you didn't ask for too large a 
chunk of 'bytes' at any one time.

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Cameron Hayne
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