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Another (admittedly less portable) way to solve the resizing problem is to reserve a large virtual memory space using linux mmap with the PROT_NONE flag and the

by 9029 2y ago

Another (admittedly less portable) way to solve the resizing problem is to reserve a large virtual memory space using linux mmap with the PROT_NONE flag and then commit pages as needed using mprotect with PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE flags. I believe windows' VirtualAlloc/VirtualProtect also allows this

jeffbee 2y ago
You don't need to do anything with the flags. You can just mmap a huge virtual area and the pages will be realized whenever you first touch them.
- 9029 2y ago
  Today I learned, thanks