[9029]

Another (admittedly less portable) way to solve the resizing problem is to reserve a large virtual memory space using linux mmap with the PROT_NONE flag and then commit pages as needed using mprotect with PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE flags. I believe windows' VirtualAlloc/VirtualProtect also allows this

[jeffbee]

You don't need to do anything with the flags. You can just mmap a huge virtual area and the pages will be realized whenever you first touch them.

[9029]

Today I learned, thanks