Re: sending large buffers to wine applications

Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Jack DarkStar wrote:
I don't want to use a file because accesso to
filesystem is slow and i would like to use memory.

Only true if the FS is on a slow medium. If you use a RAM disk
you have only mimimal overhead. On most Linux systems there's a
RAM disk mounted in /dev/shm,

A 'tmpfs' is not 'a RAM disk'. It's a file system whose contents
reside only in the page cache, eventually backed by swap space in case
of memory pressure.
.

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