[ On Sunday, May 27, 2001 at 12:08:54 (-0500), Lex Spoon wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Multiple disjoint object memory in Smalltalk
>
> Let it not pass, that being able to use multiple heaps also allows for a
> very easy-to-implement grow/shrink mechanism.  The current mechanism is
> pretty hard to implement on Unix; actually, I don't really have a clue
> how to do it at all without using Linux-specific extensions.

Since you don't say what Linux-only features you have in mind, won't
mmap() do (maybe not with ideal efficiency, but...)?

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