mmap

mmap() bindings for Crystal

Design

Platform specific flags are ignored when unsupported and it is safe to do so.

Supports:

• mremap
• mprotect
• madvise
• mlock
• msync

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     mmap:
       github: crystal-posix/mmap.cr

2. Run shards install

Usage

Map anonymous memory

require "mmap"

Mmap::Region.open(16384) do |mmap|
  # Do something with slice
  mmap.to_slice


  # SubRegions reference the original Mmap::Region, tracking the offset if resized
  rw_region = mmap[0, 4096]
  # Do something with the first 4k
  rw_region.to_slice


  key_region = mmap[4096, 4096]
  # Keep region from being swapped
  key_region.mlock


  # Create a guard page
  guard_region = mmap[12288, 4096]
  guard_region.guard_page
  # Crashes program if accessed
  guard_region.to_slice[0] = 0_u8
end

Map a file for read

File.open("a_file.txt") do |file|
  Mmap::Region.new(file.info.size, file: file, prot: Mmap::Prot::Read) do |mmap|
    # May be faster than file.read if the file is cached
    # May be slower than file.read if the file isn't cached especially without -Dpreview_mt
    http.response.send mmap.to_slice
  end
end

Map a file for write

File.open("a_file.txt", "w") do |file|
  Mmap::Region.open(file.info.size, shared: true, file: file) do |mmap|
    # Do something with slice
    mmap.to_slice
  end
end

Benchmarks

IO#read_fully vs mmap for several file sizes

   read 8192 235.83k (  4.24µs) (± 6.34%)  656B/op        fastest
   mmap 8192 189.03k (  5.29µs) (± 5.52%)  768B/op   1.25× slower
  read 65536 137.22k (  7.29µs) (± 4.29%)  656B/op   1.72× slower
  mmap 65536 188.94k (  5.29µs) (± 6.14%)  768B/op   1.25× slower
read 1048576   9.09k (110.00µs) (± 3.95%)  656B/op  25.94× slower
mmap 1048576 179.55k (  5.57µs) (± 5.32%)  768B/op   1.31× slower

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/your-github-user/mmap/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Didactic Drunk - creator and maintainer