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Even further: allocate the same physical region twice. Please google what "virtual ring buffer" is ))

For example here: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/the-magic-ring-buff...

That's a really neat idea - hadn't seen that before. Link: http://vrb.sourceforge.net/

If only that were possible without a file...

It is completely possible without a file (on linux, winNT, osx). Syscall names might mislead you, but this is how it is...

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