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Re: Indrema and their console



Christian Reiniger wrote:

> > to focus of gaming aspects.  If they require the entire game be one
> > executable though then you won't be able to do any modern games.
> > (Well not entirely true.  I suppose you might be able to load a massive
> > executable and let the memory manager page things in and out.  I'd
> 
> On Linux only the currently needed pece is loaded anyway, so it *would*
> work. But of course having everything in one single file is ugly and
> relying on very good memory management is downright evil.

It's not that bad. It's not really good, but not that bad. mlock() saves
your ass.

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"If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak
at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system."
 -- Linus Torvalds

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