iopipe v0.0.4 - RingBuffers!

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/12/18 3:38 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 May 2018 at 23:22:02 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> OK, so at dconf I spoke with a few very smart guys about how I can use 
>> mmap to make a zero-copy buffer. And I implemented this on the plane 
>> ride home.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> They can be problematic with some CPU's and OS's. For modern CPU's there 
> should be no problems but those with exotic caches and virtual memory 
> configurations there can be some aliasing issues. Linus Torvalds talked 
> a little about that case in this thread of realworldtech
> https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=174426&curpostid=174731

Thanks for the tip. The nice thing about iopipe is that the buffer type 
is completely selectable, and nothing changes, except possibly some 
performance.

So on those arch's, I would expect people to select the normal 
AllocatedBuffer type.

-Steve