On Friday, 15 August 2014 at 08:36:34 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366887%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Allocates memory charges (from the overall size of memory and
the paging files on disk) for the specified reserved memory
pages. The function also guarantees that when the caller later
initially accesses the memory, the contents will be zero.
Actual physical pages are not allocated unless/until the
virtual addresses are actually accessed.
Oh handy, so there's basically no work to be done on Windows.
I'll have to check the behavior of mmap on Posix.
