mapped files

[cvbalu]

what are the advantages of memory mapped files over conventional file i/o ?

Thanks in advance for any information regarding this

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[James Curran]

They tend to be fastest, particularly when you have a very large file.
They let you work the standard pointers, instead of file read & write fucntions.
Any function that works with chr* (strlen, STL etc) can work directly on the file.

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