@ Yichao Yu - thank you for the response. That clears things up a bit. Does 
this also imply that there is no performance penalty incurred by mmap'ing a 
persisted file as opposed to a non-persisted file?

On Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 8:38:20 AM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote:
>
> > It appears that the disk-file backed SharedArray is syncing to the file 
> on 
> > every write/update to the array - am I mistaken about this (I'm not 
> > suggesting it is a problem, just want to ensure I'm clear)? 
>
> If you are talking about sync'ing to the OS cache, yes, and that's why 
> other process can see it. If you are talking about sync'ing to disk 
> then no, not even most normal file IO do that. 
>

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