> "Redis on Linux uses an OS feature called Fork/Copy On Write. This feature is not available on Windows,<p>The memory-mapped file APIs on Windows are seriously lacking. Last time I dealt with them, there was no documented way to write to a constantly-growing mmaped file (unless you knew its size already). All the workarounds I tried ended in segfaults :/. Curious if anyone here has had success with that.
This is good news, I've been waiting for the MS supported version of Redis so I can play with it on a Windows box.<p>I wonder why they hosted on Github vs Codeplex. Codeplex supports Mercurial, Team Foundation Server or Subversion and Git.<p>Microsoft recently posted the source for _parts_ of ASP.NET (minus web forms) on codeplex.<p>(just curious, not trying to troll.)