efficient 'tail' implementation

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Gerald Klix <Gerald.Klix at klix.ch> wrote:
>  As long as memory mapped files are available, the fastest
>  method is to map the whole file into memory and use the
>  mappings rfind method to search for an end of line.

Excellent idea.

It'll blow up for large >2GB files on a 32bit OS though.
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