[Python-modules-team] Bug#638973: ITP: python-smmap -- a pure git implementation of a sliding window memory map manager

[Marco Túlio Gontijo Silva]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot at debian.org>

* Package name    : python-smmap
  Version         : 0.8.1
  Upstream Author : Sebastian Thiel <byronimo at gmail.com>
* URL             : http://github.com/Byron/smmap
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : a pure git implementation of a sliding window memory map manager

 When reading from many possibly large files in a fashion similar to random
 access, it is usually the fastest and most efficient to use memory maps.
 .
 Although memory maps have many advantages, they represent a very limited system
 resource as every map uses one file descriptor, whose amount is limited per
 process. On 32 bit systems, the amount of memory you can have mapped at a time
 is naturally limited to theoretical 4GB of memory, which may not be enough for
 some applications.

This is a dependency for python-gitdb.