https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/10371 <p> The memory mapped API in interprocess (<a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/boost/interprocess/mapped_region.hpp">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/boost/interprocess/mapped_region.hpp</a>) provides advise() while the memory mapped API in iostreams (<a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/mapped_file.html">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/mapped_file.html</a>) does not. </p> <p> The iostreams API is easier to use (allows creating and sizing during construction), but is missing the key feature that would allow kernel optimization of random access versus serial. </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/10371 Trac 1.4.3