[IPython-dev] [sage-devel] Re: Jupyter notebook by default?

[Volker Braun]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 1:17:12 PM UTC+1, Min RK wrote:
>
> Files aren't used for output. The filesystem should only be involved, if 
> at all, in the exceptional case of output overflow.
>

Everything is a file of sorts... map is just ram with filesystem backing. 

You can put large stuff that you don't continuously access into ram (which 
will then be paged out -> swapfs) or you put it into a temp file (either 
tmpfs->swap or disk). However you call it, large data that is not 
continuously accessed must end up on the disk because thats what it is good 
for.


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