From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2007-01-17T04:24:22+09:00 Subject: Re: efficient access to a large int32 array "Martin DeMello" writes: > 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? I think Ara has been hacking some package to use Narray on mmap'ed files, which works fast and is persistent. Search the archives. > martin -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org