Re: What happened to Double Buffering?

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> I can do one better, though I rarely bother (I've seen
> it done by a co-worker though); one can set up a virtual
> memory area that is associated with a file, and then access
> the area using char* pointers.  The file load in this case
> is done on an incremental basis, with pages faulting in as
> needed.  (mmap()/mmap2(), mremap(), munmap().)
> 
> Java does sup****t this concept as of 1.5 or so; I've not
> tried it though.

Are you referring to MappedByteBuffer?  That was introduced in the now 
obsolescent version 1.4 of Java.  It's hardly new.

-- 
Lew