Customized Allocator (on disk)

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> 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