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PaulHoule
on June 5, 2023
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How Photoshop solved working with files larger tha...
... application-based virtual memory has been a thing since CICS on mainframes back in the 1970s.
astrange
on June 6, 2023
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Photoshop can't rely on mmap, because its scratch file implementation is older than most modern OSes, and some systems have virtual memory limits it exceeds, not just physical memory limits. Though I'm not sure the browser even has mmap capability.
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