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The nice thing about virtual memory is you can make really big RAM disks…
by anotherevan 7y ago
The nice thing about virtual memory is you can make really big RAM disks…
- gowld 7y agoIsn't that a regular disk, with your OS's (or SSHD's) file cache?
- mbreese 7y agoNo, in this context, it's creating a virtual disk using only RAM as a backing store. If you do this, then you can use whatever tools you'd normally use (cat, wc, grep, etc) to explore a dataset as if they were files. It's the super quick and dirty way to go if you don't want to code up a proper solution and your data fits in RAM. (assuming the data is organized in files to begin with)