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I quickly hacked together a patch to try out mmap() in sv_gets()
for the "snarfing" where a filehandle is read wholesale into a scalar.
In Perl parlance this is also known as "slurping".
Practically untested except for the basic scenario:
open my $fh, $fn; my $data = do { local $/; <$fh> }
Handles the (odd) case of not being in the beginning of the handle.
Probably leaks something or does something equally stupid.
Right now I have no time to test/benchmark (and the aggressive caching
by operating systems makes this a very thankless task indeed) but in
case someone else is, please find the patch is attached. For science.
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