Off-heap direct-memory data stores

It would be nice if posts that are direct links to patents were marked as such. I don't want to read patents even accidentally

https://code.google.com/p/jmalloc/

Also, since jmalloc claims it's "inspired by BigMemory from Terracotta", Terracotta open sourced their offheap store under Apache v2: https://github.com/Terracotta-OSS/offheap-store since

can someone please change the title to indicate this is a deep link to a patent? I clicked through on a work computer.

Is that a bad thing?

It can be. If internet history is subpoenaed during the discovery process of a patent case it could be used against you.

I also am slightly annoyed that it was a direct link to a patent since there's really nothing good that can come from browsing patent applications on the legal side.

Infinging because you could be proven to have seen something (even by acceident!) feels like thoughtcrime.

Is this like pinned memory in managed languages ? Pinned memory has existed in .NET for a long time. Moreover, in C++ people have been writing custom allocators for reasons stated in the patent. Can someone shed some light on what is innovative in this patent?

I'm not quite following. Isn't that just mmap?