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Stuck with 1970s VM?

Stuck with 1970s VM?

Posted Mar 7, 2007 16:38 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
In reply to: Stuck with 1970s VM? by im14u2c
Parent article: Short topics in memory management

As far as I remember Windows got memory-mapped files starting at least with Windows-95. Surely the API is different, but it is straightforward to isolate the difference behind a tiny wrapper. The best thing about it is that since the memory mapping removes explicit reads/writes from the application, the end result is more portable code.


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Stuck with 1970s VM?

Posted Mar 7, 2007 16:44 UTC (Wed) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246) [Link]

*whoooosh*

That's the sound of a tongue-in-cheek jab at Windows going over your head. :-)

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