mmap() vs. reading blocks

Question

I\'m working on a program that will be processing files that could potentially be 100GB or more in size. The files contain sets of variable length records. I\'ve got a first

Answer 1

This sounds like a good use-case for multi-threading... I'd think you could pretty easily setup one thread to be reading data while the other(s) process it. That may be a way to dramatically increase the perceived performance. Just a thought.