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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, today announced details of its participation at Black Hat USA 2018, August 4-9 at the Mandalay Bay ...

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 ...

On the Windows platform, the C++ language offers several ways to process a file. We'll look at four approaches for serial IO access. Reading and writing to a file is one of the most required features ...

Persistent memory (PM) used to be the norm when magnetic core memory was ubiquitous, but volatile DRAM now dominates main memory. While non-volatile memory (NVM) is used for booting and application ...

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 ...

Continuing the trend started with Windows 7 of each new Windows version placing lighter demands on the system than its predecessor, Microsoft has been talking up some of Windows 8’s new approaches to ...

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 ...