Re: Efficient large chunk of memory copy? -- copy diffs?
Developer wrote:
On Feb 24, 10:39 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:
* Developer:
If I have a large chunk of memory, data_vector; and I want to make an
identical copy of it, duplicated_data--- basically a snapshot of
data_vector.
Vector const vCopy = v;
Is there a cheap way to do this?
Define "cheap".
Most efficient way in regard of time.
data_vector changes gradually, and I
want to make duplicated_data synchronized to data_vector at some time.
Basically, the difference between the previous 'snapshot' is just a
fraction of the whole data chunk. Is there a way to only copy the
'diff'?
Yes. It depends on your 'diff'. If it can be defined then it can be copied, and
if it can't be defined then it doesn't exist and there's nothing to copy. :-)
Let's say data_vector is around 1GB, and the 'diff' is only
10MB between snapshots.
Good, then you can save a lot of storage.
[snip]
vector<MyData> data_vector;
vector<MyData> duplicated_data;
Hm -- and so?
What is the purpose of MyData?
MyData contains lots of fields, int data is just an example of the
members. But hopefully this does not make my question unclear.
Basically, I am asking if there is a smart way to copy diffs.
You could play funny games with marking pages Read Only, and then
catching a write and making a copy of the page before allowing the write
to succeed. Of course this is totally non-portable and way off topic for
C++.
Depending on quite what you need you could wrap a std::map, and every
time you do a "snapshot" you copy the current map into a snapshot
object, and make a new blank map for the current one. Then when trying
to look things up if you can't find it in the current map it means that
it must be in the previous snapshot, so delegate it like that, but then
access cost is essentially a function of the age of the data of course.
Alan
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