[Feature] Constantly make a backup, in case we can't catch a crash

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[Feature] Constantly make a backup, in case we can't catch a crash #1056

Closed iTrooz closed 1 week ago

iTrooz commented 1 year ago

Discussion: https://discord.com/channels/789833418631675954/789833418631675957/1103788121881051216 (ImHex discord)

TLDR; we could use persisted memory-mapped files on Windows (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/memory-mapped-files) and mmap on Linux. The goal is the constantly write in memory, but to not flush to disk until the process crashes (which will be handled by the OS)

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