>mmap is a really nifty feature of modern operating systems
... for some definition of "modern".
... for some definition of "modern".
Its quite obvious that the author "dumbs down" all the information for a very non-developer audience, so I assume that gives some leniency. If you tell people that we have had things like mmap() for decades, they may start asking too many questions about why every piece of software underperforms so horribly below what was possible decades ago.
Bit of a rant, but I feel that we lose a little bit of potential every time a developer calls operator<< on a std::istream in a loop.
This is, as an aside, the reason why I don't comment my code often (I personally dislike docblocks that do nothing but obvious explanations) - but whenever I think hard about a thing I always record it in a comment with the problem, my reasoning, and my rational for choosing the solution used... i.e. don't comment on the what, comment on the why.
You may consider removing the rubber only when you can adqueately explain to me why it is there
Instead you have to do backflips to load data that doesn't fit in RAM.
(Also you’re thinking of TOPS-10 — TOPS-20 and TWENEX were developed in the 70s. But your heart is in the right place!