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Re: Customized Allocator (on disk)
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Cc: Reza Roboubi <reza at linisoft dot com>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:56:52 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Customized Allocator (on disk)
> What exactly do you mean by "on the disk"? Just stored as a normal file,
> or accessing the disk sectors directly, or via mmap(), or...? Most of
> the major databases do something like the second option, bypassing the
> filesystem entirely to gain speed. The library can't do much more than
> the first option without getting ourselves into trouble.
I think the subject under discussion is a persistent allocator. I'd be
interested in somebody volunteering to make this available to GNU C++
users.
-benjamin