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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Efficiently setting up large quantities of constant data
Date: 16 Dec 2004 15:52:28 -0600
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In article <cpsfjh$fg3$1@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>, Andre <avsaway@hotmail.com> writes:
> Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:

>> For example, suppose I have a binary file "distances.dat" containing
>> the (road) distances between 1000 different cities.  This could be a 2MB
>> file computed by another application. How can I build a single executable
>> file containing the data and access it from the Ada code?

> 2. Use a memory mapped file. This way you also get a pointer to the data 
> and Windows is taking care of loading it into the memory. Data reading 
> using a memory mapped file is just as fast as putting it in the executable.

But since he did not say the purpose of putting it in the application
was for speed, I think we have to presume it was for religious reasons.