On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 at 10:50, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyhow - I was doing some re-factoring of the BinaryDataContainer to encapsulate it better; and I was thinking of adding the ability to swap these out (which should be async), and to then read them back in on demand which (I hope) in the era of SSDs - should be extremely fast, although synchronous.
My view of this, is that
(a) we have had virtual memory for several decades now
(b) the OS already has a swap file, and optimised paths for dealing with that
So we should just dump all of this explicit swapping to disk we do and let the OS do its thing.
