Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Copy-on-write in practice

[Alexander S. <ast...@it...>]

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:23 PM, Joe Auricchio wrote:

>> OPTION 3.  Arrange game-state structures explicitly in memory and 
>> bulk-copy
> ...
>> On ExitPredictiveMode(), of course, the copy is simply deallocated 
>> and the base pointer set back to the "real_mode" chunk of memory.  
>> Cheap cheap, fun fun.
>
> Could we just let the predictive copy rot

And do an madvise() on it if we're on a POSIX system; that'll tell the 
VM we don't care about those pages.