terminology - What does it mean by buffer? - Stack Overflow
Here, the buffer array is used to store the data read by read (2) until it's written; then the buffer is re-used. There are more complicated buffer schemes used, for example a circular buffer, where some …
What is the difference between buffer and cache memory in Linux?
Buffers are associated with a specific block device, and cover caching of filesystem metadata as well as tracking in-flight pages. The cache only contains parked file data. That is, the buffers remember …
What is the Python 'buffer' type for? - Stack Overflow
The buffer in this case is a sub-string, starting at position 6 with length 5, and it doesn't take extra storage space - it references a slice of the string. This isn't very useful for short strings like this, but it …
How to determine the size of an allocated C buffer? [duplicate]
May 17, 2012 · Since buffer is a pointer (not an array), the sizeof operator returns the size of a pointer, not the size of the buffer it points to. There is no standard way to determine this size, so you have to …
Node.js: How to read a stream into a buffer? - Stack Overflow
Jan 11, 2013 · I wrote a pretty simple function that downloads an image from a given URL, resize it and upload to S3 (using 'gm' and 'knox'), I have no idea if I'm doing the reading of a stream to a buffer …
How do you implement a circular buffer in C? - Stack Overflow
Do you need a circular buffer or a queue? The required operations make it sound like queue. I admit that with the requirement of a fixed size using a circular buffer make sense, but I'm not sure the question …
javascript - In TypeScript 5.6+, `Buffer` is not assignable to ...
Jul 24, 2024 · So how does this cause problems in Node.js? Well in @types/node, Buffer is basically a subtype of Uint8Array. Buffer unnecessarily redeclared the entries() method in a way that copied the …
architecture - what is a store buffer? - Stack Overflow
Jun 19, 2012 · A store buffer is a speculative structure that exists in the CPU, just like the load queue and is for allowing the CPU to speculate on stores. A write combining buffer is part of the memory …
Convert a binary NodeJS Buffer to JavaScript ArrayBuffer
Dec 23, 2011 · A “small” Buffer 's buffer property is an ArrayBuffer that represents the entire memory pool. So in this case, the ArrayBuffer and the Buffer varies in size.
How to append binary data to a buffer in node.js - Stack Overflow
I have a buffer with some binary data: var b = new Buffer ([0x00, 0x01, 0x02]); and I want to append 0x03. How can I append more binary data? I'm searching in the documentation but for appending ...