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Off-heap direct-memory data stores
- polskibus 11y agoIs this like pinned memory in managed languages ? Pinned memory has existed in .NET for a long time. Moreover, in C++ people have been writing custom allocators for reasons stated in the patent. Can someone shed some light on what is innovative in this patent?
- pacaro 11y agoIt would be nice if posts that are direct links to patents were marked as such. I don't want to read patents even accidentally
- strangemonad 11y agocan someone please change the title to indicate this is a deep link to a patent? I clicked through on a work computer.
- alkonaut 11y agoIs that a bad thing?
- adamgray 11y agoIt can be. If internet history is subpoenaed during the discovery process of a patent case it could be used against you. I also am slightly annoyed that it was a direct link to a patent since there's really nothing good that can come from browsing patent applications on the legal side.
- alkonaut 11y agoInfinging because you could be proven to have seen something (even by acceident!) feels like thoughtcrime.
- crazybob 11y agohttps://code.google.com/p/jmalloc/ https://code.google.com/p/jmalloc/
- alexsnaps 11y agoAlso, since jmalloc claims it's "inspired by BigMemory from Terracotta", Terracotta open sourced their offheap store under Apache v2: https://github.com/Terracotta-OSS/offheap-store https://github.com/Terracotta-OSS/offheap-store since
- bcheung 11y agoI'm not quite following. Isn't that just mmap?