File access is a resource-intensive operation. Accessing a file from the disk for an application is a time-consuming operation, and accessing data from the primary memory is always faster. So, what if ...

Hope this title is more or less correct! I have written a video importer that has to scan potentially huge files (several Gb) in order to find the frames of interest, with the only requirement for ...

Laid out in memory. For example, all the content of a memory-mapped file is copied from storage into physical or virtual memory. For the fastest processing, the memory (RAM) must be large enough to ...

A process may map files to its address space, thereby creating a 1-to-1 equivalence between the files’ data and its corresponding memory-mapped region. Memory mapping has several uses: Dynamic loading ...

If you dig microcontrollers, and you like to dig into how they work, Elecia White wants to help you navigate their innermost secrets with the help of memory map files. In this refreshingly funny, but ...

If you use C or C++, you have probably learned how to open a file and read data from it. Usually, we read a character or a line at a time. At least, it seems that way. The reality is there are usually ...

Have you ever thought of writing your own compiler? There are a number of good reasons to do this. It's incredibly educational and can be useful. It can solve problems and produce abstractions that ...