On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Fred Weigel <fwei...@crisys.com> wrote:

> ...
>
> Find attached a first cut at shared memory support (mem.cc). It allows
> mmap() ...
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A friendly plea to remain portable.  I've seen it time and again, a great,
portable software package comes out.  And then they start tweaking it peace
by peace until, for largely no reason, it becomes unportable and
unmaintainable.  In 35 years, I've not needed memory mapped files (but I
understand that that may be due to the kinds of problems I faced).  Still,
I hope an eye is kept on simplicity and portability.  I wouldn't start
adding all sorts of cute stuff.

Just my two cents.

Blake

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