Uri Guttman wrote:
> i was looking at dan's PMC arena allocator struct and it reminded me of
> something an older language can do (which MJD has likened to an early
> perl :). ever heard of AREA in PL/I? it was a large chunk of ram
> dedicated to allocate memory from. what was special is that all pointers
> generated by these malloc calls (i forget the pl/1 syntax but it doesn't
> matter) were OFFSETS into the area and not direct pointers. the reason
> for this was that you can make a complex tree structure out of this AREA
> and then write the whole thing to disk as a single chunk, and in another
> program read it back in and your structure is back. since all the
> pointers are relative to the base of the AREA, you can read it back into
> any address in your virtual space.
i like it. How do I indicate that my variable is to be taken
from the (which) persistent space at a language level? Or would this
be an internal infrastructure service which other things could build on.
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