#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Sys::Mmap; use constant SEGMENT_SIZE => 256; use constant MAX_SEGMENTS => 8192/SEGMENT_SIZE; my $file = shift; my $mmap; if (! -f $file) { die "'$file' is not a regular file\n"; } open(F, "< $file") or die "Couldn't open '$file': $!\n"; mmap($mmap, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, F) or die "mmap error: $!\n"; my $last_seg = -1; while (1) { my $segment = ord(substr($mmap,0,1)); next if ($segment == $last_seg); my $len = ord(substr($mmap,1+SEGMENT_SIZE*$segment,1)); my $line = substr($mmap,2+SEGMENT_SIZE*$segment,$len); print $line; $last_seg = $segment; }