Will there be support for mmap/MapViewOfFile/etc?
Yes, mapping will be an available switch to speed up existing features (the goal is to eliminate linear-searching) and to provide many of the advanced features. Furthermore, we hope to gain insight on using memory-mapping to simulate non-i/o paging and setup an abstraction layer with which to create/load/save ‘custom’ functions and objects … think of them as ‘template’ DLLs and linked libraries – mostly for use within an active program, but there are obvious benefits in persistent use as well — we also realize that much of this has been done before, in bits and pieces, and rarely as a primary focus. The examples we can think of (Win32 is the most glaringly obvious) also have far too-specialized purposes and designs to be of any realistic use to us (well, that’s not completely true with such projects as CORBA, which as mentioned above, we will want to read-up on), which is why we will implement our own wrapper (or our own version, depending on how much support there is at user level
