On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 at 10:50, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@collabora.com> wrote:
> Anyhow - I was doing some re-factoring of the BinaryDataContainer > to encapsulate it better; and I was thinking of adding the ability to swap > these out (which should be async), and to then read them back in on demand > which (I hope) in the era of SSDs - should be extremely fast, although > synchronous. > > My view of this, is that (a) we have had virtual memory for several decades now (b) the OS already has a swap file, and optimised paths for dealing with that So we should just dump all of this explicit swapping to disk we do and let the OS do its thing.
