https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/io/ Recent content in Io on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:53:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2015/04/memory-mapped-files-in-java-chronicle-and-the-art-of-zero-copy-i/o/ Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:53:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2015/04/memory-mapped-files-in-java-chronicle-and-the-art-of-zero-copy-i/o/ Memory-mapped files let you treat disk storage as if it's RAM — the OS handles the mapping and caching transparently. Chronicle Queue uses this to give you a persistent ordered log with throughput approaching raw memory bandwidth.