[interfacekit] Re: Status Updates (and more...)

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2004-01-14 at 01:41:36 [+0100], Axel Doerfler wrote:
> > > My idea to solve this problem is to pass data larger than, say, 
> > > 64 KB
> > > through an area (and leave it like that in the registrar). I'm
> > > currently stuffed with work; so, if someone else wants to 
> > > implement 
> > > that, I wouldn't mind to hand it over.
> > I wouldn't spend too much work on that right now, at least don't 
> > care
> > about all the tiny details - I think this will be made easier in
> > OpenBeOS sooner or later (because of a more advanced VM API).
> It's not complicated (i.e. it should be implemented very quickly). 
> The 
> available area functions are just fine for the job. Or, if you're 
> referring 
> to the fact that our ports will be superior and will handle large 
> messages 
> gracefully, I still don't think messaging should be used for 
> transferring 
> greater amounts of data.

No, as I know you think that way :), I was targetting at some Copy-On-
Write functionality, so that you could save a memcpy() over the whole 
span.

Bye,
   Axel.

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