Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

Jason Andresen jandrese at mitre.org
Fri Oct 24 06:44:56 PDT 2003


Q wrote:

> Good point, maybe I should have said "increasing" growth instead of
> "linear" ;)

It looked linear to me, however the constant factor was much smaller. 
In the real world, that is often good enough.  The Linux 2.6 kernel 
looks like it has a constant time algorithm.

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