ScalableSystems

  • The Power of Memory-Mapped Files in High-Performance File Processing

    The Power of Memory-Mapped Files in High-Performance File Processing

    In modern data-driven systems, file I/O is often the primary bottleneck not CPU, not memory, but the cost of moving data between storage and user space. As datasets grow from megabytes to terabytes, traditional read/write-based file access models struggle to scale efficiently. This is where memory-mapped files (MMF) fundamentally change the performance equation. Memory…