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Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

On 11/30/2011 5:06 PM, Monnier, Gary wrote:
Not really. A user space can be used however you desire. Think of
it as a white board that is erased between uses. No two uses need be
the same. No persistency

Well, a user space *IS* persisted, as it's a real object on disk. But if you don't need it to be persistent, what's the difference between a using a user space and just allocating the memory? End result: You get a pointer to memory.

david



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