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On 27/12/15 18:36, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 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.

I'd say that JSON-persisted data structures is essentially this?

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

Sure. And we'll have problems with the fact that rebooting will not be 
tabula rasa ;) New jokes ahead?