Re: [boost] Random Access to Files (RAF) - any interest ?

From: Slava, Alex (raf.devel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-20 00:18:38

On 5/18/06, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   - Some algorithms (Lehman & Yao's B-link tree concurrent locking
> algorithm, IIRC) don't work well with memory-mapped files, yet memory-mapped
> files are ideal when concurrent locking isn't an issue.

Locking doesn not work with MMF, that is true. In this particular case
there may be workarounds involving MMF, such as a separate file, or
shared memory segment, with flags corresponding to each record in the
data file, indicating state of the record. Access to this structure
should be protected with syncronization primitives. Of course, this
workaround is not always appropriate. Again, the question is wherther
it makes sense to use RAF when its efficiency cannot be exploited.

>
>
> --Beman
>

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