In-place memory manager, mmap (was: Fastest way to store ints and floats on disk)

[Kris Kennaway]

castironpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got an "in-place" memory manager that uses a disk-backed memory-
> mapped buffer.  Among its possibilities are: storing variable-length
> strings and structures for persistence and interprocess communication
> with mmap.
> 
> It allocates segments of a generic buffer by length and returns an
> offset to the reserved block, which can then be used with struct to
> pack values to store.  The data structure is adapted from the GNU PAVL
> binary tree.
> 
> Allocated blocks can be cast to ctypes.Structure instances using some
> monkey patching, which is optional.
> 
> Want to open-source it.  Any interest?

Just do it.  That way users can come along later.

Kris