Ah oops - I forgot to repeat my mention of copy-on-write from my first post:
On Thursday, February 05, 2026, at 9:30 PM, Alyssa M wrote: > I tend to think about mmap the same way I do about vfork: with the right > virtual memory system and file system it shouldn't be necessary. A > combination of demand paging* and copy-on-write* should make read/write of > large areas of files as efficient as memory mapping - the main difference > being that, with read/write, memory is isolated from both the file and other > processes, whereas memory mapping implies some degree of sharing. On the > whole I think I'd rather have the isolation. Without that it makes no sense! Sorry! ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te8d7c6e48b5c075b-M718007f34efa7d6c391d0583 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
