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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of pipes
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:47:34 +0000
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On 18/11/2024 17:04, Pancho wrote:
> On 11/18/24 13:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 18/11/2024 11:05, Pancho wrote:
>>> I do remember looking at named pipes and deciding it was appropriate 
>>> for some task, but I have no memory of actually implementing it. 
>>> Which could mean it just worked and I never thought about it again, 
>>> or it could mean I didn't do it.
>>
>> Similar here.
>> I've tended to use ramdisk files ... for interprocess communication. 
>> Not idiot proof, but can be made fit for purpose.
>>
> 
> I guess simpler than shared memory sections.

A ram disk IS effectively a shared memory section.
But with well known ways to access it - and well known issues about race 
conditions if two+ processes try to write to it
In the end the issues are just the same, only the coding and sometimes 
access speed is different.

> 
> One of my golden rules of programming was - show me some RAM and I will 
> squander it on a cache. :-) Although, my crime was mainly in memory 
> databases.
> 
RAM space has never ever been as problem for me when using low level 
languages.

> 

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