Subject: Re: How Pspell/Aspell Dictionaries Work (was Re: Footprint)
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 22:44:08 CST
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:10:43PM -0500, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> When Pspell is used in conjunction with Aspell most all dictionaries are
> mmaped in. This means that when more than one open application use the
> same Aspell dictionary the dictionary is only loaded once in memory, this
> is not true for Ispell where each process will have its own copy of the
> dictionary in memory. Being mmaped in also means that the dictionary will
> automatically be unloaded from memory when it is not being used and the
> memory is needed for other things.
Now that the Debian packages of pspell do the --enable-ltdl thing, I
really ought to check it out...
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