Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> The other possibility would be to use mmap instead. That way you avoid the
> double buffering altogether. Do you have any ideas about that?
>
I ran across a link last night on the R list to the TPIE (Transparent
Parallel I/O Environment) project at Duke University. It looks
interesting and somewhat related to this thread:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/TPIE/
It is C++ and GPL'd, but there are links to some related papers.
Joe