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		jbert on Jan 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The “too small to fail” memory-allocation rule > You're right, though; metadata on the allocations themselves marking them as release-on-memory-pressure would be much better. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html - MADV_DONTNEED allows you to provide such meta data now.

derefr on Jan 24, 2015 [–]

Right, this is what I was thinking of when I said it; I was just being vague because I didn't remember the name of it :)

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