[interfacekit] Re: Status Updates (and more...)
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:52:34 +0100 CET
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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