# Shared data between processes

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shared-data-between-processes/101350
**Category:** Performance
**Tags:** question, distributed, sharedarrays
**Created:** [July 8, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shared-data-between-processes/101350 "2023-07-08T15:20:23Z")
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### Author: ![pitsianis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pitsianis/32/26588_2.png) [@pitsianis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pitsianis)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shared-data-between-processes/101350/1 "2023-07-08T15:20:23Z")

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I was surprised that `SharedArrays.jl` does not support SparseArrays.

Is there any package that can place any data structure in a shared memory segment so that collaborating processes from `Distributed.jl` can access them without replicating?