> The point is that there are many very common access patterns which
> the O/S can, and should, recognise and optimise without the user
> needing to tell us.
very common != all.
I'm interested in trying your scheme out -- if indeed it does work
and we have no legitimate reason to use madvise, then that is of
course very desirable (why add syscalls when we don't need them?)
-cw
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