Hey!

I just got this qrazy, but neat idea... :) Is it possible from Perl to somehow put a file in main memory (and maybe force it staying there, and not go to swap)?

SQLite uses one single file as a database, so I was thinking that since memory is WAY faster than harddrive (and memory is getting bigger and bigger), why not put the file there somehow and work on it from there! This is interesting in a general, but I would have good use of it with SQLite here! Having a file in memory wont waste hd either ;) and the db is not many mb...

Maybe creating a "filesystem" in memory, and "copy" file there?

Thanks,
Ace

In reply to SQLite database (or any) file in main memory! by Ace128

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