Re: NSData dataWithContentsOfMappedFile with huge files?

FROM : Robert Martin
DATE : Sun Aug 27 21:21:38 2006

You might want to take a look at: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/
archives/2006/08/24/hex-fiend-11/

Rips through files of gigantic size!


On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, Cameron Hayne wrote:

> 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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