'Ancient' module for OCaml
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-$Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2006-10-13 12:28:20 rich Exp $
What does this module do?
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Example
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+XXX Note the example code is really stupid, and fails for large
+dictionaries. See bug (10) below.
+
Run:
ulimit -s unlimited
have shown that this could make a huge difference to performance, but
we are not sure how to implement this cleanly in the current library.
+[Update: I have fixed issue 6 manually for my Weblogs example and
+confirmed that it does make a huge difference to performance, although
+at considerable extra code complexity. Interested people can see the
+weblogs library, file import_weblogs_ancient.ml.in].
+
(7) [Advanced topic] Certain techniques such as Address Space
Randomisation (http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/) are probably not
compatible with the Ancient module and shared files. Because the
The solution to this bug is non-trivial.
+(10) Example code is very stupid. It fails with large dictionaries,
+eg. the one with nearly 500,000 words found in Fedora.
+
+(11) In function 'mark', the "// Ran out of memory. Recover and throw
+an exception." codepath actually fails if you use it - segfaulting
+inside do_restore.
+
Authors
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