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memory-mapped file

segment of virtual memory that has been assigned a direct byte-for-byte correlation with some portion of a file or file-like resource
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memory-mapped file

Summary

memory-mapped file is a shared memory[1]. It draws 116 Wikipedia views per month (shared_memory category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • memory-mapped file's instance of is recorded as shared memory[3].
  • memory-mapped file's subclass of is recorded as computer file[4].
  • memory-mapped file's part of is recorded as computer storage media[5].
  • memory-mapped file's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026xn1p[6].
  • memory-mapped file's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/file-mapping[7].
  • memory-mapped file's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 123084682[8].

Why It Matters

memory-mapped file draws 116 Wikipedia views per month (shared_memory category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9]

Related Entities

computer storage media

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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