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 ...

Memory-Mapped Files A memory-mapped file contains the contents of a file in virtual memory. This mapping between a file and memory space enables an application, including multiple processes, to modify ...

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 ...