Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
class	Filemapping and Shared Memory	MBS Util Plugin	10.5	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	All

The class for file mapping and shared memory access.

FilemappingMBS is a clever way to map the content of a file into memory without loading it.
All applications are today loaded via mapping using the virtual memory manager. So your data is inside the file but some memory is used to cache it and you can access it as a memoryblock.

You can use this class in several ways:

1. file mapping read/write: Call the constructor with a file, open the file mapping and map memory in your process to read or write a file.
2. file mapping read/write with temporary files: You can create (multi gigabyte) tempory memory storage to store data too big for your application own address space.
3. a variant of 2 is to pass nil to the constructor on Windows to have the data stored in the swap files.
4. use Constructor without paramaters and call CreateSharedMemory to create a shared memory object.
5. use Constructor without paramaters and call OpenSharedMemory to access a shared memory object from another process.

For shared memory objects, be careful how you design it. Your shared memory should have a flag for editing, so one app does not edit while another app edits. Add a version value to check your application versions. Also add a value for the revision of the content so your apps can see modifications. Finally your app should handle the possibility that the application crashes while writing data. So the data can be in a bad state.