> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:17:24 +0100
> From: wmgcnfg@web.de
> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] [Patch] Faster access on zip boundaries
>
> Hi Gerd,
>
> sounds good. I've commited it.
>
> Did you ever measure how long it takes to instantiate a ZipFile? Each
> time a bnd file is loaded the ZipFile is instantiated. If that takes too
> long it might be better to instantiate it once and then reuse it.
>

I did not measure it, but it seems to be very fast, because in I don't
see it in the profiling tools that I use. Afaik it is memory mapped, so maybe
the very first access is much slower.

Gerd