Off-heap direct-memory data stores

[pacaro]

It would be nice if posts that are direct links to patents were marked as such. I don't want to read patents even accidentally

[crazybob]

https://code.google.com/p/jmalloc/

[alexsnaps]

Also, since jmalloc claims it's "inspired by BigMemory from Terracotta", Terracotta open sourced their offheap store under Apache v2: https://github.com/Terracotta-OSS/offheap-store since

[strangemonad]

can someone please change the title to indicate this is a deep link to a patent? I clicked through on a work computer.

[alkonaut]

Is that a bad thing?

[polskibus]

Is this like pinned memory in managed languages ? Pinned memory has existed in .NET for a long time. Moreover, in C++ people have been writing custom allocators for reasons stated in the patent. Can someone shed some light on what is innovative in this patent?

[bcheung]

I'm not quite following. Isn't that just mmap?