Sane

I see what you're saying now by the redundant storage, and understand how that could be a problem. However, I doubt there's much I'd be able to do about that without taking more time than it would to just dump the dang thing. Or are these regulations reasonably easy (and universal) to simulate?

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DaWei

I don't think you'd find it trivial. At the same time, I don't want to discourage you from doing what you can. Modern OSs are fairly successful. I think a lot of people aren't aware that disk operations are orders of magnitude slower than memory operations because of that success. Forcing a dump of the whole thing, if it didn't clear the cache, would be a write-through op and not necessarily incur the time expense of forcing a dump AND clearing cache.

Dang it, you're going to mess around and pique my interest and make me look at things that I haven't bothered with for years. Bad Sane, bad Sane.

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