On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Alex Baretta wrote:
> Just a thought: how about running two different processes which share 
> relevant data through an mmapped file? The C-threads could communicate 
> with the Ocaml world through this shared memory segment. I am not sure 
> how much mileage you'll get out of this, but at least you would not have 
> to rewrite the runtime system...

We have also thought about this.  It would surely be a working solution
and much faster than our current cruel hack of reading data from the
tail of a file.  But a solution involving only one process would be
preferable in the long run.

Regards,
Markus

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