Re: can we publish a aset interface?

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would to use a special memory context for shared data (based on
> mmap) and I like impementation of aset. There is only one difference -
> aset is based on malloc and I would to use a mmap.
>
> malloc() is used in AllocSetContextCreate and AllocSetAlloc. These
> procedures should be overwritten, but other code and data structures
> can be used. This step can be useful for previous discuss about some
> more comfortable maintaining of shared memory.
>
> What do you think about?

What would this be good for?

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