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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Parallel Forth on a 44 core machine
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:35:42 -0700
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mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:
> I didn't catch your drift there until I found out why there are no
> really fast RAM drives. The fastest drive is no drive at all, and
> that is possible by writing the simulation data to a temp file.
> Windows has a special attribute for that ( _O_SHORT_LIVED ) and
> Linux has shm.

On Linux you can make a ramdisk (use some of your system ram as a file
system) with tmpfs.