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 ...

As noted at the beginning of this article series last week, an initial dive into in-memory computing meant questioning whether this was just another of those buzz words or whether there was some meat ...

I'm working on a Windows text editor using MSVC++ and WTL. One of the decisions I'm having some trouble with is how to perform I/O. I'd like to be able to open up a text file, detect the input code ...