Re: Performer: Using very large databases

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John Rohlf (jrohlf++at++tubes)
Tue, 19 Oct 93 12:03:07 -0700

>Is it possible for a separate process to create a shared memory arena,
>malloc and create data arrays into that memory, then have the
>app/cull/draw processes of my Performer application access tha data in
>those arrays without copying the data? The first process would be
>created and running before the Performer app starts.

This should work if you map the shared memory at the same virtual address
space in all processes. Note that you should map the shared memory into
the performer process before pfConfig. The best thing to do is whip up a
simple test case and experiment.

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