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How do applications (and OS) handle very big files?
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For instance, I have video file which is 11.8 Gb, but my RAM memory only 2 Gb. How does VLC (or other software) handle it? How do they load it into memory? I used VMMap tool (from sysinternals) to take a look at memory, and I saw: Private 160000K Working set 100000K Obviously, it's much less than 1…
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This is so complicated that it's extremely difficult to even begin explaining, so I'll just mention few basic ways programs can work. First and the most obvious way which is also often the slowest is to work directly with the file on disk. Basically…
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