On 23 Mar 2012, at 18:44, Stan Sieler wrote:

(For that matter, let me say "I'm planning to use it in the next few milliseconds... please fetch it into memory behind my back now, while I do other things").

There is such an API already today: man madvise (I don't know how much is hooked up today though, at least in Mac OS X 10.5 most of those parameters were still no-ops: http://lists.apple.com/archives/PerfOptimization-dev/2009/Apr/msg00024.html ) Jonas _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com