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From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
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Subject: Re: Idea: disposable memory
To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
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> 
> Kevin Day wrote:
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> man madvise?
> 

Yeah, but MADV_FREE doesn't really do what I need. I have no idea if the
system actually did free my ram or not. I want to hang on to the data, but
if more ram is needed, then it can be discarded, but I need to know that it
did, so that I can recreate it. Checking every time I blit an object to see
if the page is zero'ed won't work.

Kevin


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