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On 12/27/2015 01:46 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> The idea of a memory-mapped object-oriented system is nothing new. On the
> contrary, it is more than 20 years old.

Well, as Rosen pointed out, if you accept virtual memory as memory, then it's
even older than that.

> No, it will be equivalent to a container library.

Yes, thinking more about the idea, when current S/W writes a file, it often has
no idea how big that file will be until it's finished. The equivalent would seem
to be a memory-mapped unbounded container that persists, with a name, after the
program ends.

Another thought I've had is the need to wipe non-mapped objects at program
termination for security.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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