From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-01-16T23:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: efficient access to a large int32 array

On 16.01.2007 15:10, Martin DeMello wrote:
> I have a file that is a dump of a large array of 32-bit unsigned ints
> (bitvectors actually). All I need is to load this into memory and have
> fast, efficient access to the array members, and a few bitmasking
> operations - the array will never be written to, and ideally should
> not need to be bounds-checked. Should I be looking at something like
> mmap or narray to do this, or would I be better served by a custom C
> extension?

How large is "large"?

	robert